"This seems to have gotten a bit personal. Nobody has called you a...um... "militoid" for enjoying military fiction."
What I enjoy is reading stories where I end up careing for the characters. Belive it or not but that can happen in exceptionaly good "militay" books like "
The Corps" or books with very slighty anti-US government, anti-military books like "
Hominids".
I have both the corps series and the Neanderthal series and have read them twice.
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When I lived in Minneapolis I worked with a person who would go on a rabid tear whenever the military was mentioned.
He worked in the hospital with me, and in most ways was very nice. He, his wife and two girls lived out in the country. They had no tv because they didn't want the children exposed to guns or violence.
The most recent person is one that I work with now. I NEVER mention the M word to him. I really, really mean irrational on that subject.
So when I say that some people don't want to see
any military references I do mean that.
I started to grow up at the end of the "beatniks" in the 50s. And went through school as a "hippy".
I can't say that I'm that much smarter now, so much as I can say I gradually gained a little more knowledge.
You do need police and the military. There are some very bad people out there.
When people emote rather than think, like I too did in the 60s, I think "just grow up".
Lets just say that I'm sorry for offending anyone.
And if someone wants to devote their lives to peace, I encourage you to do so. Really.
But think a little too.