From: Amara Graps (Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 09:34:53 MDT
Dehede011@aol.com:
>I deeply respect military service. I don't glorify it in anyway.
>However I do see the kid that serves his/her country as truly
>performing an act of love.
I respect your respect... I couldn't possibly comment on what a
military experience is like because I never experienced it. My only
comment (more to Brian) is what many here have already stated in
different ways:
There are many "acts of love":
- where you earn alot or little or nothing, are funded by government
taxes or not, are protected by a country's Constitution or not, are in
great danger or not, lost friends or family or not.
Sometimes it seems like one sacrifices alot for that "act of love",
but if that action was one's own choice, then when one has time to
reflect on it, the result is simply that one learned valuable things
for one's own life, not that someone 'owes' you or should 'respect'
you or that you should have 'special privileges' because of your own
choice. (No matter how committed you were at the time of that
decision.)
Amara
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