We may send our kids to school, send them to the grocery store, send them to fill up the gas tank in family car, but to say that we are "sending" our "kids" to war is a distortion of reality. Ours is an all-volunteer military, they are not "sent" by their parents or conscripted by their country. Its members are adults, not "kids," who enlist and re-enlist, not victims with no other options for career or higher education (another liberal myth that Lambert perpetuated on air). They are professionals who believe in our country and their mission, as epitomized in their enlistment oath:
I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
They all deserve our gratitude for their service preserving our liberty. Condescension and ignorance does these heroes a disservice.
POLITICS, MILITARY
