Originally Posted by
Training Risky
Don't lecture me with your pathetic virtue signalling. The gay veterans you mention are already covered by the tributes at the Cenotaph. the Cenotaph is NOT for political stunts.
Get some time in, if OASC will allow you, before you try to pontificate on subjects you know nothing about.
War by its very nature is political. All of it. The politicians make the decision to go to war, and it's the young men and women who are sent off to fight it. Therefore, acts of remembrance are also political due to the political connection to war.
Even if the Pride flag was political (it's not, by the way... you are wrong), it represents those who were politically and societally oppressed by the very governments and society that they served and protected. Arguably, they are far better people than those who seek to unrecognize their service and sacrifice which has allowed this country to remain so great.
It's not virtue signalling, it's calling out blatant bigotry, which ironically is not tolerated in the Service you speak of.