Returning veterans usually do hug and kiss loved ones upon return.
This deserves no more attention than any of them.
Those returning in a flag draped box or a med flight deserve more.
Giggity.
Yep. Couldn't agree more.Returning veterans usually do hug and kiss loved ones upon return.This deserves no more attention than any of them.Those returning in a flag draped box or a med flight deserve more.
Agreed.
Yep. Couldn't agree more.
Yes it is. You just chose not to see it.
Those returning in a flag draped box or a med flight deserve more.
I know gays were serving in the military when I was in, and it hasn't been that long since I got out (18 years Army). But, they were not embracing and kissing in front of the other returning families and for the TV and reporters cameras.
I wonder, if it were two guys, would you be as open minded?
You misunderstood. I'm not "open-minded" as you state. I stated that the military is not as "different" today as it was many years ago as was insinuated by the OP. It had as many gay members then as it does now... probably no more or less than the average population.
My bad then. And I agree about the number of gays in the military now and in the past. But it wasn't in your face like it is now since "Don't ask, Don't Tell was repealed by Obama. BTW, I am the OP
Probably b/c no one gave a shit about who they were banging, straight or gay...worried about making it through the war was enough on the mind, I'm sure.I remember what my dad used to say about homosexual men in the Army during WWII - "I won't say anything against 'em. Their country needed them and they did their part, just like everybody else." Everybody knew they were there but as long as no one definitively outed themselves, no one cared. They had bigger issues on their minds.
All of which leads me to think that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Returning veterans usually do hug and kiss loved ones upon return.
This deserves no more attention than any of them.
Those returning in a flag draped box or a med flight deserve more.