In service to our country, being a member of the Armed Forces, volunteering to protect this nation from intentionally created wars, wars established for political reasoning, or be it the true humanitarian, humble attempt to provide and establish freedom and equality, are difficult choices, filled with danger, and which can leave the Troops with horrendous disabilities both physical and emotional. We no longer have the draft, a convenient and intentionally savvy political attempt to promote war, but not insist that ALL Americans participate in the wicked ways of WAR.
Our nation it seems is in a perpetual war mode, either decade long in Afghanistan/Iraq/Syria or long-standing unending war posture with Troops in South Korea, and our allies stationed in Europe alongside NATO. We keep some footing in Cuba, and find our Troops stationed in the Continent of Africa, fighting an enemy with strange sounding names, but whose attempt is the same, to create a theocratic dictatorship, restricting any kind of equality or humanity. We tried our luck in Viet Nam, one of the first wars that actually found some strong resistance within America, and a war which later was discovered to be nothing but a plot in a scheme to keep Richard Nixon in power.
When there was a draft, many Americans gladly went along with the direction of their government. Some, too afraid, had bone spurs and wealthy influential families and avoided enlisting. Following their fathers lack concern for fighting a war, but maintaining the rewards of being the victor, some never volunteered their services either, just garnered the bonuses. But now we have a new law, a version of don’t ask, don’t tell, harsher perhaps, but even more hateful and homophobic. No longer will Transgendered Troops be welcomed, and Transgendered Troops will have to comply with some insecure Christian assumption, that an individual cannot come out with the truth about their gender identity, but only Jesus, who was in the operating room at birth who assigned you, your male or female genitals, knows if you are a he or a she. The fear of the LGBTQ community, the fear that somehow the LGBTQ community is more powerful than your own God or is it the self-loathing of singular men and women, who have been so brainwashed into hating themselves, wishing they too had more freedom, like those Gays, only to wallow in archaic and inhuman religious voodoo!
Over 17,000 identified Transgendered Troops, wonder how many MAGA/Swastika/Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy/Republican politicians/Pay to Prey offspring will now step forward and take the places of the Brave Transgendered Troops considered useless and Godless Americans!
