As a Veteran myself, I never thought about who was in Washington, but the fact that I was proud of my country, as I volunteered, and was not drafted. I guess volunteers do it for the right reasons, and not selfish ones.
I enlisted during Obama. I didn't agree with him. I knew he would be gone and someone else would be there. It isn't so much serving the man as it is serving the country as a whole.
There’s a lot more to it. And people’s perspective matters. I have spent lots of time in a military setting growing up, which included working as a volunteer in things like a US military museum, which was mostly run by retired veterans of foreign wars. Including those that predate Vietnam. Because of that, no matter how frustrated and disappointed I might be about the way some things are today—I’d never sit out the National Anthem. When people were sitting around praying they didn’t get the “knock on the door” because every single young man went to war “because it was what we had to do” no one would take a knee. I could never take a knee, because that pride and patriotism of what America is through it’s history still matters. Black people didn’t take a knee during the civil war. And they shouldn’t now. Not with a largely minority military. The issues with police are directly caused by the politicians the people taking the knee elected. It’s that simple. Don’t protest who you voted against when the people you voted for caused the problem you’re complaining about.
