Entitlement

If you serve in the Armed Forces, First  Thank you for choosing this as your profession. Secondly, I want to remind you that a part of protecting our country is not using your title as a platform to mistreat people around you and think it is ok. Serving means just that. There was young man mistreating a woman today in my parking lot at my condos. After about 15 min of hearing this woman ask him to stop what he was doing, and him kicking a big dent in the car she was in that had a small baby in the back seat, I could take no more and went to find out if she was ok. Of course this started him after me. All I can take away from this interraction is that I pray for our youth especially. He told me that I was just a civilian and was not worthy of me telling him anything, that he served in the Marines and if I called the cops they would laugh at me. He then let me know he protects our country therefore he could do and say as he pleases. Then he told me that I needed to respect my elder? I am 40.. I am really worried about our youth. The respect factor has gone out the window. Not with all of course but it is at a very all time low. This kid was about 17-20. I thanked him for serving for our country but let him know that protection starts in your own home and serving in the Marines did not give him any type of special rights to treating people poorly. This is not the first I have seen of this behavior and again I say, not everyone that serves is like this (of course). He asked me who I was to say anything and I said I am someone that cares about how other people are being treated and that gives me a right to a voice. We need to start standing up in this country for morals and integrity and the good of all. We need to get back to where we were as a society. I ask you to please pray for this young man and his baby and the Mother and everyone to care enough to do what is right.