Isn't it time that we honored the men and women who are serving our country even though their civil rights are being denied them back home? Doesn't that scenario sound familiar to some of the rest of you?
2006-09-30 08:24:10 · 5 answers · asked by Isis 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Yes, darlin' it does sound familiar.
Yes, we do serve, have always served and will always serve ... the country we love. Even though it denies us over a thousand rights, benefits and protections...ones we have vowed to defend...
We do so in hopes that we too will be included, we do so in hope that we will one day be given our EQUALITY, because only throught a Democratic Republic can we ever even have a chance of making our lives MATTER!
I still believe in the vision of what this country was MEANT to be. I still believe in the genius of our founding fathers' vision.
Even though I witness it's destruction with ever law passed to restrict MY rights as a citizen of a Free Country. I MUST Believe, or parish.
2006-09-30 10:35:30 · answer #1 · answered by DEATH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The U.S. has never really honored or taken care of it's vets, as a Nam era vet I, and a lot of my friends, can give you all the horror stories you care to listen to. We're really big on "Support the Troops" when they're 2,000 miles away with their lives at constant risk, not so much when they come home, then they tend to get ignored and swept under the rug untill the civilian government need more lives to spend. During Desert Storm the networks yielded to Govmnt pressure and pulled the TV show "China Beach", which was set in Nam, off the air because they didn't want service people reminded of what they could expect when they got home. Sad, but fact of life.
2006-09-30 16:29:41 · answer #2 · answered by rich k 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look in the gayellow pages for your area. The problem with most professions is that they need the patronage of all members of society and it is difficult for them to run an exclusively gay oriented business.
Oops thought you meant Vetinarians not Veterans sorry
2006-09-30 15:30:43 · answer #3 · answered by GayMatthewSF 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yep, segregation in world war 2 and unemployment in Vietnam. we should be honored.
2006-09-30 15:42:26 · answer #4 · answered by dark rockchick 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
very true.
2006-09-30 17:08:10 · answer #5 · answered by kittens 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋