Posted on Jun 9, 2020
U.S. Marine veteran stands outside in the heat for hours with the words "I can't breathe" taped...
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I understand stand standing up for your beliefs, but using a military uniform you gain attention for that belief is wrong. A uniform should not add to or take away from ones believe (IMO)
U.S. Marine veteran stands outside in the heat for hours with the words "I can't breathe" taped...
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SPC Kevin Ford
SGT (Join to see) I'd rather vets not use their uniforms in protests. But as you say, he has two purple hearts and that has earned him a lot of latitude in my book.
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SPC Kevin Ford
PO3 Jason M. - If you're asking me if I have more respect for a combat veterans' service than my own? Quite frankly, yes (and that's true of every combat veteran here whom i may disagree with politically). Not that I take anything away from my own service and the service of other peacetime veterans. But in terms of "who gave more", I feel a man wounded in combat gave more than I have.
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We all may inherit the right to protest, but not all have earned it. He has. His Oath was to the Constitution and he must have served well or been unlucky to have earned his two Purple Hearts. The rest is between him and the law.
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The man is no longer in the service and served honorably. He earned the right to keep the uniform when he left. What he does with it after is his choice.
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