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<blockquote data-quote="Cinaet" data-source="post: 2183170" data-attributes="member: 14666">Yeah, proselytizing could be as destructive as not observing the chain of command. I guess the military has changed a lot since I was a grunt. We never worried about that. As a matter of fact the only thing I ever heard was look to your own God and let the man next to you look to his. I think Weinersteiner&#039;s opinion that proselytizing is sedition and treason is pretty far out there on the loony branch. Maybe his perspective doesn&#039;t include front line service. There might be a few hard-headed troops who just won&#039;t follow command, but your average GI respects what he&#039;s commanded to do and does it. Maybe that&#039;s changed too since I was in. If it has, then proselytizing is the least of the military&#039;s worries.Ever heard Lt. Colonel Hal Moore&#039;s (Mel Gibson) &quot;We Were Soldiers&quot; speech to his troops just before they head over to Vietnam? It&#039;s pretty cool and oh so true. A part of it: &quot;We&#039;re moving into the valley of the shadow of death, where you will watch the back of the man next to you, as he will watch yours. And you won&#039;t care what color he is, or by what name he calls God. They say we&#039;re leaving home. We&#039;re going to what home was always supposed to be.&quot; Nothing should ever stand in the way of that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cinaet, post: 2183170, member: 14666"] Yeah, proselytizing could be as destructive as not observing the chain of command. I guess the military has changed a lot since I was a grunt. We never worried about that. As a matter of fact the only thing I ever heard was look to your own God and let the man next to you look to his. I think Weinersteiner's opinion that proselytizing is sedition and treason is pretty far out there on the loony branch. Maybe his perspective doesn't include front line service. There might be a few hard-headed troops who just won't follow command, but your average GI respects what he's commanded to do and does it. Maybe that's changed too since I was in. If it has, then proselytizing is the least of the military's worries. Ever heard Lt. Colonel Hal Moore's (Mel Gibson) "We Were Soldiers" speech to his troops just before they head over to Vietnam? It's pretty cool and oh so true. A part of it: [I]"We're moving into the valley of the shadow of death, where you will watch the back of the man next to you, as he will watch yours. And you won't care what color he is, or by what name he calls God. They say we're leaving home. We're going to what home was always supposed to be."[/I] Nothing should ever stand in the way of that. [/QUOTE]

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