Oliver North certainly had something to say about Flag Day and Father’s Day. Personally, I thought he had some good points regarding how fathers are often viewed in the media today, why Father’s Day is a huge commercial outpouring and yet there is little done for Flag Day, which this year, happened to be the day before Father’s Day.
“It sometimes seems as though the only place where you can see our flag and a good strong dad together is on, and in, a uniform. Rest assured, neither will get the respect or admiration they deserve from Hollywood or the so-called mainstream media.”
“Today’s military dads are all volunteers. They are brighter, better educated and in far better physical condition than their civilian peers. Notwithstanding the extraordinary hardship of repeated, prolonged separations, the inevitable stress of combat and the danger and uncertainty attached to their “work,” they generally express greater “job satisfaction” than their non-military counterparts. Though war-time deployments shift most of the burden for child-rearing onto their mothers, the children of military dads express greater certainty – and admiration for what their fathers do than their non-military peers.
Does any of this make a military dad better than a civilian father?”
If you want to know the answer to that question, you will have to read about it here!
Of particular interest to me was where Oliver North pointed out his “hope for the future.” I leave it up to you to read the entire article and draw your own conclusions from it.
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