Reply #98: As Usual... For Me "bvar22" I Agree AND Stand With You! If I Were Going [View All]

to be "moderate" about this I would say "to each his own" but for me heavy-handed WAR does far too much damage to not only the military, but oh so many civilian causalities!

We have KILLED too many over many, many years in the name of "patriotism" disguised by WARS, BOMBS and CHEMICALS, all the while pushing an agenda that at many times only made more enemies.

FEAR & RESPECT to me simply aren't the same things. I felt when I was young and still lived at home with my parents that I always "respected" them more when they didn't use "force or fear" to teach me the lessons I needed to learn to become an adult.

I was raised as an Army Brat until I left home at 18, but I was VERY fortunate to have had parents who weren't of a mind that so many military parents were. They taught me that there were times when discipline was needed, but with it also came the understanding that it was done to make ME stop and think about the "bad behavior" I was exhibiting. But it all came with a large dose of LOVE, and with it an explanation. Yes, discipline is needed, but "beatings" were out of the question!!

Therefore, I learned at my father's knee that I am a LIBERAL with a lot of LOVE for my own and others.

JMHO!