I grew up in a military family. My dad grew up building radios and airplanes in the garage (1930s), so he went into the Air Cadets at 17, was flying cargo plane ferry flights while in high school and was trained as a B24 navigator/bombardier by 1945 (18 years old). He was a combat fighter pilot in Korea, 1953, and a B52 comman…
I grew up in a military family. My dad grew up building radios and airplanes in the garage (1930s), so he went into the Air Cadets at 17, was flying cargo plane ferry flights while in high school and was trained as a B24 navigator/bombardier by 1945 (18 years old). He was a combat fighter pilot in Korea, 1953, and a B52 commander in Vietnam, 1967-68 (flew over the Tet offensive).
The idea that men would be willing to die for honor and country and the Constitution was still pretty meaningful, even though by the end of the Vietnam war, it was getting tarnished.
A country that has non-serious (stupid regime change) wars like Iraq and Afghanistan (and now Ukraine) can't expect its warriors to take the country very seriously.
When the warrior class, the people expected to die for the cause, don't take the country seriously because it has dishonored itself, no one else is likely to do so either.
The military itself has expanded into a giant collection of careerists and bureaucratic sociopaths obsessed with "diversity".
Unfortunately the author didn't include the situation with the military into account in this article.
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I grew up in a military family. My dad grew up building radios and airplanes in the garage (1930s), so he went into the Air Cadets at 17, was flying cargo plane ferry flights while in high school and was trained as a B24 navigator/bombardier by 1945 (18 years old). He was a combat fighter pilot in Korea, 1953, and a B52 commander in Vietnam, 1967-68 (flew over the Tet offensive).
The idea that men would be willing to die for honor and country and the Constitution was still pretty meaningful, even though by the end of the Vietnam war, it was getting tarnished.
A country that has non-serious (stupid regime change) wars like Iraq and Afghanistan (and now Ukraine) can't expect its warriors to take the country very seriously.
When the warrior class, the people expected to die for the cause, don't take the country seriously because it has dishonored itself, no one else is likely to do so either.
The military itself has expanded into a giant collection of careerists and bureaucratic sociopaths obsessed with "diversity".
Unfortunately the author didn't include the situation with the military into account in this article.