Reply #50: I Am No Bigot... My Father Was A Lifer Himself. I Think He Was

[ChiciB1]

MARVELOUS. I'm not even going to try to rationalize my statement. Perhaps, it was WHEN I was an Army brat that has made me feel that a certain amount of military "correctness" bothers me. Perhaps it was because I was also brought up as a strict Catholic at the same time.

Or maybe it was ALL THE RULES & REGULATIONS that we had to follow all the time. Nothing wrong with rules & regulations, it just seems there are many more of them in the military than not!

Not only that, the rules pretty much DICTATE that you DO NOT buck the System! I think that's really what I'm trying to say. You don't see many soldiers speaking out these days do you??

And that DOES NOT mean ALL military are wrong, it's a way of life! I always felt my father was different from many of the others, I saw a difference in him, but then he was the one who introduced me into politics as a Democrat. It was more because he was an Enlisted man as opposed to an Officer and really felt for the less fortunate.

Please accept my apologies if I denigrated anyone... it was not meant that way! I know ANY military MUST have those rules, but many I saw were not as necessary as they should have been.