Veterans Day Blog

I strongly feel that the ROE is much too harsh on our troops. While they are in a situation where their lives, the lives of their comrades’, or the safety of our country, are being threatened, they should not have to be afraid to defend that. Their duty is to serve and protect, they should only have to worry about following the guidelines of those simple duties. I do agree that there should be should be some regulations to follow, but they should serve the best interest of our soldiers. At no point in time should we ever go to the extent of having enemies testify against one of our own men. How are they supposed to take pride in serving our country when we treat them like criminals?

The way I interpret the quote “Citizenship is a duty, not a privilege” is that we all abuse our rights as a citizen. We walk around carrying on with our everyday lives free to do whatever we want and feel safe and secure. We all too often forget that that freedom isn’t free. We think that these privileges are given to us just because we are citizens of the United States, we don’t think about all of our troops currently fighting to keep those privileges for us and then being treated like criminals for it. We see our veteran’s suffering from being poorly taken care of, some suffering from mental illness, some from physical disabilities, and we do nothing. Some of us look at them like their crazy; some of us feel sympathy but still do nothing out of fear for ourselves. It is our duty as citizens to make sure our soldiers are not only treated well while serving but also when they’ve come home. They fight for us, why can’t we fight for them?