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"Don't Ask Don't Tell" was repealed right around when I got back from Afghanistan, late September 2011. Admiral McRaven was the US SOCOM Commander and he came out to talk to an auditorium full of senior personnel at Bragg to lay down the new what's what. I remember a chaplain...
..asking him about unit functions and "why do I have to include abominations on the invites?" McRaven told him, very politely, "the bus is pulling up to the station. You don't have to stay on it. You can get off the bus if you don't like where it's going." The necessary...
..removal of extremists from the ranks, overdue in my personal and professional opinion, reminds me of that moment. The bus is stopping. Just get off the bus, it's cool, the world will keep turning and you can go do whatever else you want aside from military / police gigs...
..because people who hate on everyone who doesn't look, act, or worship exactly like them, shouldn't be in positions of armed power/enforcement. Been around too many extremists to think otherwise. Seen too many countries implode. Get off the bus. Thank you for your service.
The world is changing. The pace of the world's change will continue to accelerate. This will happen with or without your input.
There is no "but". Godspeed. May love cushion the blows.
