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Downtown Hound

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11. This is why I tell people they should never join the military or

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Thu Jun 20, 2013, 01:56 PM

Jun 2013

work for the Military Industrial Complex in any way as long as the government exists in its present from with its present policies. By doing so, you are nothing but an accomplice to atrocities. Or worse, someone who directly carries them out.

I do have some sympathy for this man, but I also have anger too. If it was my family member that he killed, I would want him dead. I wouldn't care if he was "just following orders." I would hate him for being cowardly enough to carry those orders out.

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