Military family reconsiders its commitment

Air Force Family is tired of being dismissed.

This week my husband put out his resume to a non-military place of employment.

Our family loves dearly being a military family. We love moving frequently and seeing the world and country. We love the pride we have at supporting someone willing to give his life for us, for those who are unable to fight for themselves. We love being a part of a force that is changing the world for the better.

But we do not love being dismissed, either our opinions or our experiences. We do not love knowing families who have sacrificed loved ones and still support the War on Terror while watching the media cover families who are set against the War on Terror in a completely lopsided manner.

We do not love having experienced deployments and the situations that accompanied them and having our experience brushed off in order to cover the experiences ofthose who agree with the media presupposition that anything the military does in Iraq is bad.

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We do not love seeing Google pick up as "news" sources groups like the ISM and Democratic Underground, either ignoring or advocating their obvious biases and claiming to be "neutral" and "unbiased" while doing so.

We do not love seeing organizations like Code Pink treated as a mainstream and honorable organization by the media coverage when they sell bumper stickers that say, "Mothers Don't Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Killers" in response to the military, and when they picket in front of Walter Reed Medical Center.

We do not love the disconnect most Americans seem to have with the War on Terror, unwilling to even shorten their driving time or buy more consumption friendly cars to stop the flow of oil money into Madrassahs.

We hate the spin that the media puts on the polls they take, on the trends in the military recruitment, on the news they report from the safety of their hotel rooms in Baghdad.