Do you love your country's military or feel ashamed by having military forces ?

I'm somewhere in the middle. I do not in any way love the military because they are agents of government, and government's should not be trusted. I just don't feel they automatically deserve 'elite' status. It's just another job really but military personal have succumbed to doing the government's bidding in exchange for a sense of social eliteness.

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zonavar68 · 56-60, M

Providing the military is never used against it's own citizens I think there is a good balance. Unfortunately in the USA there is a propensity to 'call in the army' to deal with civil unrest.

Here in Oz I don't think that's ever happened. The army has been used to help out in all the floods of the last year.