Veterans set a civic example.
'Last Sunday, at least 2,000 military veterans arrived at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the Dakota Access pipeline.
The group of veterans, known as Veterans for Standing Rock, is led by Wesley Clark Jr., son of retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark. Clark has said that the group would assemble as a "peaceful, unarmed militia" and has received over $1 million in donations from 24,000 individual donors.
Michael Wood Jr., a retired police officer and a former Marine, said, "We are there to stand in front of the peaceful protesters." David Hulse, a Navy veteran described his involvement at Standing Rock as "a mission of peace" and said the veterans at Standing Rock are "a brotherhood."
This gathering of veterans at Standing Rock is not an isolated incident but is indicative of a larger movement of veterans who engage in the civic and political life of their communities.
When veterans depart the military, we are often confronted with a loss of that sense of purpose and brotherhood that characterized the military experience for so many of us.'>>>
Many veterans seek to fill that void through continued service to others.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/opinion/20161208/eric-hodges-veterans-set-civic-example
= new reply since forum marked as read
