Stereotyping

Why is it that the majority of people who know your a military family are seemed shocked to find very little patriotic decor in your home? What, am I supposed to have a giant flag in the front yard? Alarms that play revielle? Stars and stripes on everything? Red,White,Blue Chips/Dip set?

I don't assume that because you work in an office that you have artwork made from paperclips or that your walls are all cubical gray. With that mentality what would a McDonalds workers house look like? There would be "golden arches" everywhere! What about the folks that bottle can/bottle soda? I guess their walls for have to be lined with aluminum cans and soda bottles in the windows. It's just ignorant to stereotype people by their profession. People do what do, its not who they are. Some people don't drop their jobs at the door but most folks do. Personally I don't think red,white and blue actually accent one another well at all.

Bottom line: Being a military family and being a patriotic-nutjob are totally different things. Don't come to our house and expect the 4th of July in September. Bleh.