I have taken four re-enlistments in my military career, always in the presence of my beloved flag that I might have died for. It is a solemn, serious ceremony, where one pledges their allegiance to the Constitution and to defend the Country to their last full measure. Not a something to take lightly.
It made me angry to see it.
There is plenty about the military to gripe about. It can be mindlessly, bureaucratically, stupid, it can be ignorant, it can be wasteful, it can be illogical...it can be any number of things.
But the things about the military that outweigh those things are the honor of your pride in striving to complete a mission or task, being a key part of a larger team, the excellent leaders you encounter above you, and the superlative people who serve with you and under you...the people you serve with, your country, and...the traditions.
The traditions are meaningful, and they connect you to every person who wore that uniform before you, the traditions are living links to history and the past. The uniforms, the salute, the taps and colors, even (or especially) the funerals are all living expressions of those traditions. They mean something.
And these people just crap all over it and treat it with less respect than a graduation ceremony for 2nd grade kids.
It isn’t supposed to be FUN or WHIMSICAL. It is supposed to be a solemn commitment to your country, your service, and yourself.
You know all this, as do most who have served.
Boy, the more I think about it the more disgusted I am. See, to LEFTISTS, only the RUBES, the WEAK MINDED, people INCAPABLE of surviving in the civilian world, and the EASILY LED think the traditions are important.
So they have to tear them down, remove the meaning behind them, trivialize them, and deconstruct those traditions.
They have to do that, because they can’t stand something GREATER and more lasting than them, so they have to destroy them.
And it is why Leftists HATE the military.