You Really Don’t Care About Veterans.
If you voted for Trump and are willing to fight for him, you hate everything we stand for.
A Very Different Feeling for a Veteran’s Day
Veteran’s Day — November 11, 2020 — has passed. With September 2020 just passing, I’ve been out of the Army for a full year. With twenty years of service complete, a retirement anniversary serves as a personal Veteran’s Day, giving a vet like myself two days to remember and celebrate. However, this year is marked with no military photos from me in uniform, no mention of military experience, and barely any speaking on other veteran’s social media platforms. I have always been a fan of letting people have their celebration, and from there, I chose not to be the Knight in Lemon Armor, showing up to sour the moment for others.
Seventy-three million Americans voted for an authoritarian pathological narcissist, the most blatantly white supremacist president we will have ever seen in our lifetime. On top of that, a fair number of these voters and supporters seek to cling to their Bully-in-Chief. Trump supporters have already shown a willingness to wield violence, up to and including acts of domestic terrorism. They were trying to kidnap a governor just because they are of a different political party? I don’t even think that happened in the 1920s and 1930s, the era where I draw the most parallels to our unique American history of domestic white supremacist political terrorism.
“We are unique among militaries… We do not take an oath to a king or a queen, a tyrant, or a dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual.” ~ Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Since Donald Trump used President’s title to duck and dodge local, state, and federal accountability for the numerous crimes he has committed during and before his presidency, getting re-election was necessary for him. It protected him from being hold accountable for his crimes, all while committing more crimes, which may include acts of treason if adequately investigated.
Veteran’s Day 2020 just doesn’t feel right
With the Trump-flu raging on due to President Trump’s assault on objective medical science, going out to eat at a restaurant at a Veteran’s discount felt a little off. I was with my girlfriend, and I love her, so that’s a plus. But the day and environment overall robbed me of the feeling. As a man who served twenty years as a U.S. Soldier who also deployed to war twice, it is baffling to witness a sitting president vehemently opposed to the wear of proper protective equipment (called PPE in military parlance). If one can understand we need ballistic protection (which ranges from ballistic armor to ear-protection), how can one support a President who doesn’t have the good sense to see to it that all medical personnel, and the American public, wear the proper medical protection concerning the novel coronavirus? Why downplay its severity? What about the logic of military medics? If he treats doctors and other medical science professionals so horribly, wouldn’t that also tangentially include a Trumpian disdain for U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine medical personnel?
You have to Hate America to Support Trump.
Support of Trump is without question an assault on a myriad of U.S. institutions, with our various branches of military service being among those.
Many of the decisions Trump has made abroad will make our future military missions far more complicated than they need to be.
