an institution that serves to protect our country and represents the ideal patriotism should not be able to discriminate. discrimination is not patriotic. regardless of someone's background; they should not be judged on the person that they were, but rather the person that they are becoming.
so what if someone's record from a few years ago is a little sketchy? the institution itself wasn't there to observe it. they don't know the circumstances. and they refuse to see how much a person can change between then and now. A courageous, compassionate, and strong man can be judged and treated poorly based on something he did when he was 15? Content of character can change as a person grows and is influenced by his surroundings.
to act in such an unappreciative way to someone who has fought overseas and served our country, not just sat in a classroom and learned about it, is just simply not fair. and the difference between life being not fair and this instance is that this SHOULD NOT be this way. life's not fair and there isn't much you can do about that. but not letting someone return home for over six months, when there were opportunities for him to do so, just like all the other members of his company? that can be changed, as it should be.
Dear Institution to which I speak,
My friend has done more for this country than most people will ever do by the age of 18. You are wrong to judge him based on his past, when you have no clue of what and inspirational and compassionate person he has become. Not only has he changed other people's lives, but he has changed his own life more than any outsider would ever understand. Keeping him away from his friends and family longer than is necessary is a terrible way of thanking him for what he has done, and all the great things he hopes to accomplish. Way to be a huge, rude, unappreciative, disrespectful jerk.
With an increasing lack of respect,
Courtney
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