I'm A Veteran's Wife. Here's Why I Protested Mike Pence At The West Point Graduation.

Wow, as a USMA graduate of the class of 1980 which was the first class to include women as cadets and the first to have a black First Captain PO1 Tony Holland.
Lily Burana is the author of “I Love A Man In Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles” who comes from a "suburban punk-rock" background. Her husband is U.S. Army retired major Mike Burana. He retired in 2008.

1. My personal background.
a. I served for many years before Don't Ask Don't Tell [DADT] in 1992. In those days in the units I served homosexuals were not discriminated in any sense [infantry battalions] by leadership.
b. As a Christian, i treat each person with respect. While I was serving in the Pentagon [military and consultant] there was a transgender woman who had been a retired LTC before the surgery. She was ostracized by the people she worked with in the large cubicle-filled room. Women would not enter the ladies room if she was inside, etc. I made it a point to warmly greet this woman whenever I came into contact with her. I did so publicly and caught heat from others for doing so [2006-2008].

2. It is sad IMHO that radicalized liberal Lily Burana decided to make her own bully pulpit to bang a drum for her pet peeves on the occasion of the class of 2019 graduating from USMA, West Point:
a. railing against treatment of illegal aliens under Obama and now Trump and yet blaming Trump and Pence alone.
b. I had to chuckle at the myopic comment including "Pence, who has an especially long and virulent anti-LGBTQ record"
2. In the former Obama administration Don't Ask Don't Tell was repealed and signed into law by guess who "I morphed from military spouse to veteran’s wife upon my husband’s retirement from active duty in 2008, and when DADT was repealed in 2011, I had the opportunity to attend the annual Knights Out Gala for LGBT West Point alumni."
a. She glosses past the truth that there is a prohibition against transgender wannabees which was not designed to apply to transgenders who have gone through the surgery and are stable "the ban of transgender soldiers serving in the military to separating children from their families at the border to running roughshod over the Constitution, Pence, and President Donald Trump with whom he presides over our nation"

Here is an excerpt form her 2009 book https://www.denverpost.com/2009/09/18/i-love-a-man-in-uniform-a-memoir-of-love-war-and-other-battles-by-lily-burana/
"I Hate That Girl
I’m being followed by an invisible woman. Pesky girl, she trails me almost everywhere I go. She’s not here at the moment, so I can tell you about her: she’s probably baking something delicious in her spotless kitchen. Or writing a thank-you note, or packing up the tenth care package she’s mailed to her deployed husband this month, or having an engaging but noncontroversial conversation with her girlfriends. She’s the Perfect Army Wife, a mythical creature who seamlessly, selflessly performs every domestic task with patriotic resolve that would make Uncle Sam sit down and weep Yankee Doodle tears. She’s mindful, graceful, emotionally composed, and eternally in the right. She never falters, and heavens to Betsy, she never swears. For all I know, once the sun sets, she dons a red, white, and blue cape and flies around military installations solving crimes. Because she’s invisible, I can’t tell you what she looks like, but I can tell you one thing: I hate that girl.

Understand that there is nothing in my suburban punk-rock past that indicated that in 2002, I would marry an Army officer, thereby becoming an Army wife myself. My one connection to the military was tenuous-my dad was drafted into the Korean War, but that was long before I was born. In my family, my father’s stint in the Army was mentioned only in passing, like his former hobby of playing the saxophone or the fact that, when he packed out of sleepy little Sandusky County, Ohio, to attend Harvard on scholarship, his only suit was a helplessly out-of-date plaid. My husband was the first Army officer I had ever met. I was so military-ignorant, I didn’t know how to even talk to a soldier. When he called me “ma’am,” I busted his chops. “Did you call me that because you’re trying to be polite, or because you think I’m old?”

Thus began the relationship between Army Guy and Anarchy Girl. Ours isn’t a red state-blue state relationship-more like red state and smash the state. It baffled everyone at first, especially me.

There are more than a million military wives in the United States today, and millions more women who are married to retired veterans, so it stands to reason that there would be one or two (or one or two thousand) wild cards. To be honest, I’m hardly a Johnny Cash-caliber “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die” badass, but I’m not exactly glowing under the radiant light of my own halo, either. I do my best to make my way within a military lifestyle that is by turns rewarding, anxiety-making, exciting, and tough as hell."

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Graduation from West Point isn't about her or her political/social views. It is about a bunch of friends and family who are attending a special day to honor a loved one's achievement.

This woman should have been bounced the minute she set foot on the grounds.

So she is just some partisan hack that never served that has an ax to grind against the command structure her husband serves under. She is trying to use her dependent status to advance her agenda, pretty pathetic.