More and more I’m of the opinion that no American man or woman should be advised to join the military under any circumstances, certainly not to actually go into combat arms and fight for their country.
If the career politicians aren’t accusing you and your comrades of war crimes, then the news media prefers to publicize the sad sacks among you as the norm.
If that isn’t enough, elite universities like Columbia (which you likely couldn’t get into) are only too happy to give a podium to one of the leaders of the murderous regimes killing your comrades.
Finally, the icing on the cake arrives in your local movie theater for the edification of your family and neighbors: Hollywood has produced yet another epic showing that you and your comrades are not only war criminals and sad sacks but obviously mentally and morally deficient for not knowing in advance that war is always bad and never justified–especially when Americans are fighting it.
Since there’s no way to come out of it with any pride (and the VA benefits suck), why bother?
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 