This is why I joined at 17 in 1995. I grew up poor in a poor town in TX. I was promised money for college, guaranteed housing, and a way to no longer be a burden on my large family. That was very appealing to me and my parents.

I’m an Army veteran who joined in the 90s to ESCAPE Texas and made the wise decision to move to Chicagoland 20 yrs ago to raise my child. Knowing troops from my home state will come terrorize us for no reason disgusts me.

Oh, this made me audibly gasp! The way the light hits her hair and face is sublime!

This album will be my undoing! Will this be in your Etsy shop? It’s rad!

I’m an autistic veteran with an autistic son. This rhetoric is extremely dangerous and eases society into scapegoating us AND vaccines.

As the abject failure in my family of overachievers, I sobbed buckets. I, too, am just happy to be at the table.

I joined the Army at 17 to escape poverty and have to live every day knowing that I destroyed my body and soul in service to this country just to watch it fall to goddamn Nazis. I’m deeply ashamed.