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<blockquote data-quote="katya02" data-source="post: 208744" data-attributes="member: 2884"><p>Hello and welcome! I understand your feelings. I can completely understand your worries about your SS being trained with weapons!</p><p></p><p>Re the issue of respect, of course your respect for the Armed Forces and all they do for us won't change. There must be others besides your SS who have enlisted for less than admirable reasons, but the one redeeming thing about it is that it's a crucible that MAY result in some of them turning their lives around and coming to see life in proper perspective. Some of them may need the shock of both boot camp and deployment to jolt them out of their self-centered ways. Those who don't respond have a good chance of being dishonorably discharged, since insubordination and crime aren't tolerated in the Forces any more than in civilian society. So your SS may, possibly, turn his life around - or he may continue as is, but he won't accomplish what he thought he would. You don't have to respect his motives or even his actions; you can reserve judgment, hope for the best, try to detach and wait and see how things develop. In the meantime your respect for the Forces in general and for what your husband has accomplished need not be diminished.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="katya02, post: 208744, member: 2884"] Hello and welcome! I understand your feelings. I can completely understand your worries about your SS being trained with weapons! Re the issue of respect, of course your respect for the Armed Forces and all they do for us won't change. There must be others besides your SS who have enlisted for less than admirable reasons, but the one redeeming thing about it is that it's a crucible that MAY result in some of them turning their lives around and coming to see life in proper perspective. Some of them may need the shock of both boot camp and deployment to jolt them out of their self-centered ways. Those who don't respond have a good chance of being dishonorably discharged, since insubordination and crime aren't tolerated in the Forces any more than in civilian society. So your SS may, possibly, turn his life around - or he may continue as is, but he won't accomplish what he thought he would. You don't have to respect his motives or even his actions; you can reserve judgment, hope for the best, try to detach and wait and see how things develop. In the meantime your respect for the Forces in general and for what your husband has accomplished need not be diminished. [/QUOTE]
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