Does the military have compassion?

The hard part about being in the military is knowing when to be hard and knowing when to be soft, because there is a time and place for both.

The people direct compassion and/or empathy. The DoD or (insert branch here), may not have a lot of either one....but the people that make up both may have a lot. Allowing people short notice leave to get home BEFORE the Red Cross makes a notification, letting folks off early to care for sick child...there are hundreds or thousands of examples of compassion and empathy at the local/individual levels. At the Branch and DoD level, there is additional evidence of compassion and empathy.... Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). This allows the service members to pick organizations to donate to. Think about how much money is given to organizations through this campaign done every year. During Deployments: Situation drives compassion and/or empathy. While engaged with the enemy...we destroy them. When not actively engaged with the enemy, people donate time to help build schools, dig wells, care for sick/injured....the list goes on!

Is the military compassionate? Yes. When not actively engaging the enemy, we are. Why? I think it is because we know how well we can destroy things, that we also like to show what we can do to help build also.

If you have no compassion, you need to make some life changes.