“if they decide to go [join the military] the decision will be theirs, and theirs alone” THEY ARE NOT THE AGE OF CONSENT MA’AM THEY ARE CHILDREN THEY CANT CONSENT TO SHIT LET ALONE MILITARY SERVICE! AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON “they’ve been through hell so them being in the military where they’ll go through more of it is fine”
GET THEM THERAPY NOT MILITARY WHAT THE FUCK?????? THEYRE TEN AND ELEVEN AND YOU EXPECT THEM TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY FOR WHAT SEEMS TO BE FOR THE REST OF THEIR ADULT LIVES???? THEYRE KIDS they canNOT MAKE LIFE CHANGING DECISIONS RESPONSIBLY AND IF YOU THINK WHAT JUST HAPPENED ISNT EVIDENCE OF THAT COLONEL SIR THEN YOU CAN GO-