[grayhog]

Love this story (though some liquid leaked out of my eye as I read it) - person to person contact changed the mind of a major college coach. Hope his players see his example and it has a ripple effect.

[PIF]

Would You Kneel?

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No and stick it u no where

[blueunicorn6]

I had three “Additional Duties” that were really tough.

1. Funeral Detail Officer
2. Casualty Notification Officer
3. Casualty Assistance Officer

These were tasks that, if you screwed up, it could mean the end of your career.

You also still had your normal duties to complete.

It took me years to finally see the wisdom of having Officers pull these details.

My unit was taking part in a simulated combat exercise. One of the Company Commanders lost about 90% of his Soldiers. I screamed at him for being so nonchalant about losing people.

Then, it hit me.

These details show Officers the effect of casualties upon families.

You see the crying mothers, wives and children.

Your Soldiers suddenly become more dear to you.

Those “Additional Duties” made me a better Officer.

[Retain Mike]

In a new world view, indicating purity for all becomes defined around manipulating people into codependent relationships. A fashionable consensus defines success as one group adjusting their behavior to validate the emotional damage others have decided to inflict upon themselves by filtering events through a paranoid screen allowing only perceptions of brutality, prejudgment, and slights to shape their lives. The instigators re-segregate themselves to reside as fragments in a swarm and trade adulthood and dignity found as individuals for a prestige lacking dreams to pursue or accomplishments to celebrate. The subservient parties refuse to confront their decline in civic courage and reject the classic liberal principles that formed the basis for our Constitution in order to receive effortless addictive compassion as a drug of choice.

This novel moral superiority only requires fabricating disgust for themselves and for this country. Both parties then shelter within a joyous cacophony of mutually supportive orations validating the miseries of their own making and delighting in any opportunity for escalating their rhetoric into expressions of lawlessness. They allow those apparitions to provide definition and live out their years in prisons of their own creation.

This practice disgusts me. I see both parties as feckless and their methods for correcting social injustices as frivolous and squalid.