Outraged, ardent MRFF supporter proudly declares to MRFF: “I cancelled my monthly PayPal donation… in order to replace it with a larger one.”
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From: [Ardent MRFF supporter] <email withheld>
Subject: I cancelled my monthly PayPal donation…
Date: August 21, 2022 at 7:28:55 PM MDT
To: [email protected]
…in order to replace it with a larger one.
Mikey, the crap that you’re fighting in our military goes hand in hand with what organizations like Planned Parenthood (I’m a donor there also) are fighting in the political arena. I am astonished by the number of fellow citizens, in and out of our armed forces, who think they ought to dictate other people’s ethics, in what I was raised to believe is a free country. I’m a progressive voter now, but I was raised by Eisenhower Republicans who would be astonished, if they were alive today, at how their countrymen are determined to force others to share their religious beliefs.
My father had many memories of his service in WWII, in the Pacific theater. He talked about the challenges of working in an Evac hospital, of his pain at seeing the desperation of local people beyond the gates of the base, and his determination to help with systemic hunger here in the US, which he absolutely did. But I also got the distinct impression that he was serving with others who saw the same things and reacted the same way. His focus was to help those who need help, preferably without making them personally humble themselves to the giver, because that was not self-affirming. Dad understood that we all, at some level, have fragile points in our egos, and he was not about to tickle those points in anyone else’s. He had feet of clay, as do we all, but he was and is my hero.
This garbage about how a serviceperson needs to be pestered into saying the right religious words (and doing the right religious things) to keep an officer off their back is the total antithesis of what my father and his brothers-in-arms stood for. And so it is not only to assuage my own outrage, but that my father would have felt, that I’ve upped my monthly donation.
May whatever deity(ies) you believe in, bless you and your organization.
[Ardent MRFF supporter]