Reply #20: They spelled my name wrong, its Summers with s at the end [View All]

[Carlos Summers]

So, since I am the subject of the article, I get to rant. I blame nobody for negative input, I'm willing to die for your right to say it. I'm not willing to die to feed an oil addiction. I joined the Army in San Diego on August 08, 2001. I was 20. I read my contract and asked my recruiter about the part that says 5 years of inactive reserve after my 3 years that I was signing up for, he said "don't worry you won't have to come to work or anything, but anyway, you get a $20,000 enlistment bonus for airborne infantry, you going to buy a car? *cough* dumbass *cough*" After 9-11, I didn't complain, I went to Afghanistan as an airborne infantryman (the epitome of combat arms) I served energetically believing in my cause. The Iraq invasion occurred while I was there. I went there too. I was then honorably discharged for serving the extent of my contract as an active soldier in August of 2004 over 4 years ago. I was reactivated (not asked if I wanted to fight in an illegal war) a year later. I spent the next two years serving in Fort Bragg and educating myself about what is going on in the world. My unit came down on orders and I made my statement, love it or hate it, let a war supporter put boots on. I then tried to go to the most demographically diverse and most highly educated city in the world, Toronto. Where soldiers who have reached some enlightenment about the war escape to. I figured I had a place to be again. I just got out of jail. I feel I never committed a crime, I know that, because I never supported a war that I knew was wrong. I'm no Nazi.