That’s insane. It really is. Let me get this straight:
Your proverbial Harvard lawyer, who presumably could have started right away earning a substantial six figure salary, instead chooses to do his duty as he saw it to serve his country and submit to the authority of the military. The war was Ill-advised or, as I make it, bungled by the decision makers. So, no credit for the guy who did his duty in good faith? That’s loopy.
My son, b. 2001, is named after Pat Tillman who put love of country before fame of wealth. In the end we bungled Afghanistan. Does that mean we should trash the late Mr Tillman as well?
I'm not familiar with the process, but who joins the military right out of law school and gets commissioned as an officer? Wouldn't this indicate that he was an ROTC or Officer Candidate School graduate who had a military commitment as part of his education?
None of this will keep me from voting for DeSantis, but I sure won't have much enthusiasm for him. He'd be 100 times better than Romney and 1,000 times better than McCain. I predict he'd be comparable to George W. Bush as president, but with a full set of chromosomes. I'm inclined to think that DeSantis wouldn't even be better than many of the 2016 Republican contenders who lost to Trump in the GOP primaries.
My son, b. 2001, is named after Pat Tillman who put love of country before fame of wealth. In the end we bungled Afghanistan. Does that mean we should trash the late Mr Tillman as well?
If Pat Tillman survived Afghanistan and ran for President in 2024, his service in Afghanistan would mean absolutely nothing to me.