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Is There Pride in Serving in Our Military? The definition of pride is a high opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether the opinion is in the mind or is displayed in behavior or conduct. So, is their pride in serving in our military? Yes. There’s plenty of narcissism in our country, portraying a military as a “good thing”. So, tell me, what is so important about men in uniforms when the whole country has started a worldwide protest? When the country is in a state of panic? When millions of people are losing jobs nationwide, and are on the streets due to foreclosure? If they are here to protect us and fight for our rights, why is it that students, such as I, don’t have the right to protest? Students are not allowed to protest if it disrupts the “educational process”. Any sort of protest, even wearing shirts that say “Vote for So-and-So for President”, can start a distraction and debates in classes, leaving no other opportunity for protest. So if there is “pride” in our military, it’s only the pride that speaks of egoism and the pride of owning something or someone as property. Why else does the government draft fathers from little girls? Husbands, sons, daughters, grandparents, friends. All fighting overseas for what? Our rights? Or are they fighting overseas to prove to everyone who is the superior country? Deceived to believe that they’re protecting their families’ rights to speak their mind? Do we all fear terrorism? Yes. Do we all miss our troops? Yes, but maybe they shouldn’t have been sent overseas for so long. So you may be thinking, what else could she possibly say to show her disloyalty to her country? I’m not disloyal for speaking the truth. I’m not trying to offend the troops. Why would I? I have friends overseas, but why bother being politically correct when their fighting overseas for my right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression? Why is it we must hold everything inside when they are risking their lives, just so we can tell people what we shouldn’t have been holding in in the first place? I love what our troops do, I really do. They’re strong, brave, and fearless, but at what cost must we pronounce the significance of discipline? Third world countries have played such a big role in our military forces’ pride in history, but no one really recognizes that. Let me take you back to 1994, when the Hutu majority in Rwanda organized and executed a mass slaughter of the Tutsi minority. In just 100 days, 800,000 Tutsi were slaughtered. Where was our military then, when thousands of Tutsi bodies paved the roads? Where was our military when people were slaughtered in their homes? In fact the only time the military stepped in was to save their people from the slaughters, and near the end, showing their narcissism by prove they were better, and they could stop the genocide whenever they wanted. So why not do it earlier? How many people must die in order for our military to step in?
