And I am entitled to my opinion, as controversial as it may appear...

Tell me, who supports the woman emotionally while hubby is off playing GI Joe?

Who holds her? Hugs her when she is down? Who shows her the same respect as this whole crapola mindset that because you are a soldier you are now a god, whilst family can just suck it up for a year, or so, till the returning hero arrives?

There are always two sides to the story?

Who know if this guy is a violent wife beater, who is so screwed up with PTSD, he doesn't know his arms from his legs?

You get an OP that whines about unfaithful women... and everyone immediately tip toes because he is a soldier???

GIMME A BREAK...

Fixes the broken tap? Fixes the car?

I knew the rightys would come out

I have to agree -- everybody's priorities and standards are different. To me, age is a number. All it means is how many times you've ridden the planet around the sun. People say, "Oh, but there's a correlation between age and maturity!" There is? Where? I haven't seen it. It's a specious argument at best. To me, excluding someone because of age makes just as much sense as excluding them because of their shoe size or eye color or the number of ice cubes in their freezer.

Everybody has the right to determine their own standards. But just know that you might be missing out on someone really great, simply by making up arbitrary reasons to exclude people. Hey, I get hassled all the time because of my own self-imposed rules, but that's OK. I've figured out what works for me and what doesn't. So, while I don't understand why anyone would make an issue about age, it doesn't really bother me when they do. That's just a priority for them.