My son is going to visit his dad’s side of the family in the San Francisco Bay area. This is the third year in a row. Every year it’s the same thing. It’s so hard to let him go. Well he’s almost 17. It just doesn’t get any easier. I can’t believe in a year my “little one” will be fledging from the nest for good. It’s such and odd mixture of feelings. Such great sadness and pride at the same time. He pretty much has decided to join the military and that makes it even harder for me. Knowing he will be expected to grow up so fast. I know I’ve raised him to be a good man but I’ll always see him as my baby.
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I work in an army reserve office building as a janitor. He’ll be in good hands. These soldiers are mostly cool and friendly. They’re secure people and don’t need to go around acting like idiots for the most part. Everybody is real polite and most of the younger soldiers call me sir. Most of the women are cool too and really nice, they restored my faith in women, which flags a little sometimes.
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joining the military is an awful idea.
to support violence
to support worldly dysfunction
to support overinflated ego
to support “i have a bigger bomb than you”
to support “I’m more important than a civilian, worship me”
it’s a joke. one joke im glad I didn’t fall for
I think we are all grateful for the people who volunteered in WWII, not just for the people who were drafted. The world is more complex then during WWII or WWI because back then we knew Hitler was evil because he was gassing millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals etc. and he would stop at nothing for world domination. And Japan attacked us on our own soil. So it was clear cut why we were in the war. But nowadays it’s more complicated.
Nowadays there is no doubt we need an Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Core. Violence is a fact of life. It always has been and it always will be. And if allowed to go unchecked in certain parts of the world it could threaten the whole world. I know this is simplistic but we need armed forces. Give them some respect, they sign up knowing they might have to sacrifice their lives in order to protect us. Pretty noble. I work in an army reserve base office building which I mentioned above. I joke around with the soldiers and I’ve known some for years. To get to know them and see them every day, and then one day they’re deployed and some of them are put in harms way, just doing their job. Takes a special kind of man or woman to do that. If they get a little ego from jumping out of an airplane and risking their safety I sure don’t begrudge them that.
Sure, I don’t condone war or violence but when you have a country like N. Korea who’s leader is a wild-card as to what he’s going to do with one of the worlds largest armies, we may need to fight him to survive ourselves. Apparently, being nice to him doesn’t work.
My sister was in the Air Force for over 8 years. She didn’t kill or hurt anyone. She went in at age 18, just my ordinary sister who didn’t have a lot of friends growing up and I was talking to her a couple of months ago and I told her I was the lowest person in high school. She replied, “No you weren’t. Because I was the lowest person in high school.” (which shocked the hell out of me). But she was in the air force just a year and she came back on leave and she was a completely different person. She was brimming with confidence, outgoing, happy, the life of the party. She made friends, found a boyfriend. She enlisted as an airwoman, the lowest rank I believe but worked her way up to Sargent and ended up running an office. The Air Force was good for her and changed her life.
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