Thank you, @small1axe for speaking truth in the face of unpopular opinion.
I am a 5 year Marine Corps veteran, honorably discharged as a Sgt. My occupation was aviation ordnance (bombs on jets, to the layperson) and I participated in 3 combat deployments: 2 in Iraq, 1 in Afghanistan, with one attachment to an infantry unit (an opportunity not afforded many women in my time).
I arguably fit the description of the well-intentioned, heroic soul described by his sister above. And because my intentions were so pure and honorable, the eventual understanding of what I had helped create in the world--through foolish naivety of WANTING to believe that it was possible to just "Sign up for cookie-cutter heroism here!" --was/is genuinely traumatic for me.
Because I still want to save everyone.
And none of the people who need to be saved believe a word of what I have to say, because it would mean an end to their "SLACKTIVISM", or pretending that the right way to "support the troops" is to point out their good intentions and help them not feel too bad about being the terrorists they (we) really are.
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@small1axe is right. I'm sorry that it is an uncomfortable truth, but it is a truth nonetheless. Evil acts done with ignorant good intentions are still evil acts. If you really love your brother, then lovingly help him to understand that "the adversary" has co-opted his (and ALL members of police and military who aren't sociopaths) good intentions, and that his participation in the Cult of order followers is the ONLY thing allowing such evil to persist in the world.
God doesn't let bad things happen in the world. We do. If he gave you free will, then mathematically everything wrong with the world is because we behave as children, unwilling to accept the responsibility for our part in the mess we see, and change our actions accordingly.
...Stand in the Truth. Stop thanking people for their service and start forgiving them for what they did not know. Because the 22 veterans committing suicide every day are doing it because your toxic good-intentions are causing you to disregard the truth they are desperately trying to share with you. You want to support the troops? de-program their trauma based mind control and help them not be troops anymore. Because friends don't let friends kill and die for a corporate profit margin.
And thank you for your amazing back up to this opinion of peace .
I took a risk to get burned down here , much surprised to read your comment .
I hope your fine and find a way to loose or live with the trauma's of war.
To be a ROCK and not to Roll , would be my advice but i think you already know that .
Fighting for peace you do with a pen not with a gun ;-) .
It's a risk I'm glad you took. Most of my emotional trauma comes to the surface in the face of genuinely well-intentioned people saying the sort of things said both in, and in response to, this post. (And I truly know you all mean well). I was actually surprised to find myself trembling and a bit queasy in my stomach to read so many people being so thoroughly mislead toward purely evil endeavors, and feeling overwhelmed/hopeless to convince anyone otherwise.
If I could imagine an appropriately similar scenario, it might be likened to a formerly battered woman sitting in a room full of actively battered women who are all talking about how great their husbands are... meanwhile I'm having panic attacks in the corner stressing about the fact that I can't stop any of them from going home that night...
So again, I really mean it man. People willing to say what you said are the ones doing right by the troops and veterans. We need your courage more than you know. A pack animal standing up for truth in the face of probable rejection by the rest of the pack is the bravest creature I know. So how about this for a change:
Thank you for your service.
I see your point , the silence on here is at least awkward .
I wouldn't characterize a man who trains a guy with down's syndrome as greedy and selfish.
Is an answer from someone that did not read properly ?
Or a good try to demonize me ?
Well i hope that at least i made him think , find some answers to my questions .
I really do not need his answers , i think i already have them .
So him not reacting is to me his own loss .
I try to seed some other world view , if i don't it will never have a chance to grow. I am aware that it has no use for this and upcoming generations , i just keep that precious seed alive ( luckily with many others ) for a far away future , and yes it was called dreamland by Bob Marley , but i have the right to have that dream ;-) .
Howe i now i must be right ? i don't , i was born this way .
All the changes that came where not understood by me due to a medical condition at birth . By the time they fixed it i already stood in the Sun . From then on only (13) i started to understand the shadows and lights on the wall that they showed me . Asking questions about it no one could answer ;-) Plato .
I serve humanity and peace , we all matter . Thank you , your welcome
Stay strong , today is a gift , that's why we call it the present .
Think big but enjoy the little things ;-) .