Yup. I even learned my best racist jokes from people of the race being mocked during my time in the army. You give each other s**t about EVERYTHING, race included but in the end you will do anything for your brothers in arms.

From a young age, I was always taught not to care about race, sexuality, or gender. As long as you're not a d**k we're good.

It's a start anyway. Hopefully one day this level of acceptance and tolerance will extend to women and trans people too.

Sounds like a story about a racist piece of s**t who happened to like one Mexican. Additionally, uniting together with people you hate to harm and hate on others is not a solution to the problem. And to Deborah in the Facebook comments, there are plenty of people in the military who stand for nothing. You don't have to literally fight to be passionate.

My first two roomates in NBC School(USMC) were a WASP and a former Neo Nazi. I didn't understand why neither of them would talk to me at first until I really began to open up to them. They did a lot of sneaky and underhanded things to try to make my life miserable(I think they were trying to get me put in another room, or in trouble, i dont know). When I met all of their hate and nastyness with compassion it became impossible for them to hate me. I'm black, and I was raised in a mostely white neighborhood. I was harrassed and bullied all my life and I still have some anxiety issues because of it. However, i learned how to deal with it when I was a teenager, kill them with kindness. I could endoure the physical and mental abuse enough to tolerate the pain without letting it show(at the same time I had been lifting weights and had become the strongest kid in school at 15). It's hard to hate someone that's being nice to you. So I killed them with kindness. We quickly became best friends.

We where all just humans beings before we where countries!

I commend this man. It's not easy to unlearn what has been indoctrinated into you!

A story comes to mind that I read a long time ago. It's on a battlefield. The firing is really heavy and intense. One of the soldiers up front is mortally wounded, but the firing is too heavy and nobody can get to him. Suddenly a soldier gets up and starts running towards his wounded buddy. The Captain shouts, "Don't do it, the firing is too heavy, you won't make it." However the soldier keeps running and as he reaches his buddy he is also mortally wounded. When finally the firing subsided a little the Captain was able to reach the wounded soldiers. The first soldier had already died, and his buddy, who went to save him, lay besides him badly wounded and dying. The Captain said, "I told you not to go, now I have lost you both." And the wounded soldier said, "Yes Sir, but just before my buddy died he said "I knew you'd come."

In the 60s as a white child when racism was so ugly my mom sang in the choir with a Jew and a black woman, I was taught at home and in church not to be racist, key word being TAUGHT! First time I followed other kids saying the N word my mom punished me for being a follower! She made me tell the black choir singer, at church, what I had said and made me apologize while her hand had a death grip on my shoulder! My moms death grip was always epic and she taught me to never do that ever again! Kids need to be taught starting at home!

How "lovely" that these two talk about "Bleeding" the same red, all the while shooting people from another nation IN THE LAND of these people. It doesn't matter what nationality you are- if you are doing the bloody bidding of Uncle Sam- then F**K YOU!

Great, now see if you can include the 'enemy' in your group of people you were mistaken about?!? The real enemy is the one who gives the order to kill other people!

All sides should read this. I have seen some horrible stuff written about whites by non whites. It's not a white only problem but something everybody should understand.

My father was career Navy, the first 20 years of my life was as a dependent. The one thing the military instills is teamwork. Very few jobs will position a person with the variety of ethnicity, upbringing and points of view as military service does. If you think you are a tolerant person now, how would you feel working shoulder-to-shoulder with people who were not raised the way you were, who do not think the way you do and you will often disagree with philosophically. The job is the job and it will be done by the team regardless of personal feelings. Doesn't matter if that job is standing exposed on guard duty at a border checkpoint in Iraq, hot-bunking with a submariner crew or jumping out of plane as a platoon.

It's the people not the color...

I believe racism is taught. Having grown up in a very small white town, we never saw (in person) any people of color so I think my parents and other adults were afraid of them. Afraid of the "unknown" perhaps. I had to learn on ymy own to take each person on their own merits not by color. I still find myself sometimes making decisions based on color of a person, yet to recognise this fault and turn it around. I hope I can teach my kids reality not prejudged moralities.

So true, we are all members of the HUMAN Race.

Touching, but what I don't like about this is the glorification of the military.

...blood is thicker than water ...

And then there is Germany.. Where the army is full of Nazis..

The army taugh me not to be racist. Now lets blow up some rag heads.

There is no evidence that this actually happened.

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it hid so many likes and was shared by idiots facebook is for mental people like how cares

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I have the feeling they had sex afterwards...