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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
I understand about how different cultures approach things, what got me is that this guy was able to march in a parade, troop his unit from LA down to San Diego...and nobody so much as blinked.
Ah well, it happened in California...why does anything that happens in Cali should ever surprise me?
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You know it doesn't surprise me for two reasons. 1. No matter what some may do, such as hold protest at funerals of service members killed in the line of duty, there are way too many who even among them who still respect a person standing their in uniform. We have been institutionalized since before 9-11 not to question people who show up in uniforms. Any parade I have been too, not only big 'Military' holiday parades, civilians in general respect the uniform (ironically more so than our current sitting President). 2. The Federal, State, Local, and Military high place officials seem to be taking these uniforms at face value.
I am sending you email, because the rest I feel uncomfortable posting in open forum like this. I know lot of us would agree that this is unacceptable, but again you don't know who is reading...
Abbott Shaull
-Hey I would almost any day trade my Maroon Beret to have the honor of wearing Stetson, but hey I more afraid of being stuck in modern day coffin, and not too mechanically incline to be tanker...lol Besides I always wanted to be paratrooper since I was young, and I am sure if I hadn't been injured I would of wised up and re-enlisted into Armor Cavalry MOS after I had finished my first term. Yet due to untimely injury and the rapid draw down after the fall of the Berlin Wall it wasn't too be...