The darker angels of my nature offer a number of reasons
why I should stare at my Honorable Discharge today and wonder if it was worth
it. The voices of those who will most likely be elected to govern our state have
not uttered one note of aspiration, only hints of retribution and retaliation.
The highest court in our land seems to hate everything
I thought was decent and worthy of service. I have friends today who stare at
their marriage license and wonder if it, unlike their love, will be everlasting.
I even have dear friends who want our beloved democracy to be replaced by a
bronze-age theocracy.
I see teenagers walking to work in the heat while
televangelists ride in private jets at the taxpayers’ expense.
I see the deterioration of neighborhoods addressed
by accusations on both sides, not acts by either.
But I read history and have seen my beloved
country’s greatness spring from the darkest of swamps. It is stronger than
those who call me a sucker for serving her and so I will.
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