Now witness, now witness love

I was thinking recently why I would never like to serve in the military. Not the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines or the National guard. Beyond the aspect of getting blown away and showering with other men I can't help but think what a horrible past our nation has. About the trail of tears where thousands of Cherokee and Seminole and creek Indians where forcibly removed from their homelands in the American Southeast and marched to Oklahoma. Of the use of slave labor to build our nation up from the start. And to think that I would be representing a nation capable of such acts, an instrument of its foreign policy is terrifying.