[dak1]

What right do you have to determine who is allowed to have an opinion, and why is serving a precondition?

I did serve, I've done time overseas including in Iraq, but I did not do so out of some distorted sense that it made my citizenship or opinion somehow more valuable than any others.

I served to protect and defend the rights of every person under the Constitution. Suggesting that somebody's speech be curtailed or ignored because they did not is frankly antithetical to the oath we took.

And frankly, it's not surprising to me that somebody who so callously disregards one aspect of the 1st Amendment would treat the rest of it with the same level of disdain.

But I'm certainly not going to allow you to attribute an opinion to most who serve without standing up as a counter example.

I appreciated The Military Times and S&S when I was overseas, and I know many other service men and women who did as well.