• IninewCrow
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    7 days ago

    I will always find it hilarious that the US military accepts any kind of speech or presentation from someone who actively didn’t want to join the armed forces and avoided being drafted when so many other people from his generation had no choice.

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        7 days ago

        Yeah they all have to get a speech from the person who is probably working hardest right now to gut their benefits when they get out of the service

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      7 days ago

      They were told that the President of the United States, the leader of their military, would speak at their graduation event.

      They didn’t really have a choice.

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      Pretty sure the majority has outspoken opinions about him. Military training and restraint must have come real handy while listening to him ramble and lie.

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        How embarrassing is it though … to go through all that training and indoctrinating and messaging of ‘sacrificing yourself for your country’ … only to be addressed by an orange idiot who went out of his way to avoid the things you are being trained and taught to do.