Military Values?
January 16, 2014
The military will make a man out of you, it is sometimes said. Well, sometimes it will make a depraved pervert out of you. A retired U.S. Army sergeant and a Russian teacher at Francis Military Academy in Ocala, Florida, faces eight counts of sexual battery custodial, eight counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition, and eight counts of lewd and lascivious molestation–all with a 15-year-old girl.
Why do I blame all the bad things that veterans do on the military? Why do people credit all the good things that veterans do to the military? Tit for tat.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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