Do you know what I hate?
Things like that! Why should I have to 'Get Behind' our troops and be happy with what they are doing and think it is a brave thing to do? My opinion is, it is a job and they know what danger they are getting themselves into before they sign up to be service men or women. Yes they are serving their country, but so are nurses, teachers, firemen the list goes on. Yes people die in the armed forces but that is what you sign up for. Yes it is sad when it happens but I don't like it being rammed down my throat every time I log onto my Facebook page with the Armed forces are great, you are shit if you don't support them.
Do people think I am brave because I go to work everyday and do what I am paid to do? No!
I support that people can be whoever they want to be, if they want to go away and leave their families behind and not take care of their children because they are posted abroad then go ahead, but do not tell me that I have to be happy about it and listen to preachers saying how wonderful these people are and make me feel guilty because I don't condone it.
My view is probably because my step dad decided that the Army was more important than spending time with his family. He wasn't allowed to join due to heart problems, so as well as a full time job, he decides to join the cadet force and the TA in his late 30's early 40's and leave my mum to raise all the children alone and not have a social life. Needless to say he is no longer part of my life anymore and he has recently done a post with the TA in Afghanistan when his new girlfriend had just had a baby. Strange to me that the baby was not the priority.
I may be tainted with my view and am making a huge generalisation but I do not support the troops as it is their own choice and don't make me feel guilty for not wanting to.
