>>How does not allow evangelicals to harass others equate to dictating what they can and cannot believe? Maybe you ought to read a little about the kinds of things that have been going on in the US military on this issue.
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>Harassing each other, dictating what they believe, and not allowing religious images are 3 different things.
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>Fact of the matter is, there is no other job in the world where you have to kill people or you end up getting killed.
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>Religious imagery probably has more place there than anywhere else in the world.
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>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crusade
>" a remedial enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm "

From the same source:

"capitalized : any of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to win the Holy Land from the Muslims "
The symbol that has been chosen relates to the capitalized version.....
I can't help wondering why a branch of the U.S. military would choose to adopt the symbol of a bunch of medieval zealots who used religious conviction as justfication for committing acts of atrocity :-}

>I think it goes without saying you're a political correctness crusader.
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>Politically correct != correct, or even smart.
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>Though somewhere along the line your beliefs on that topic have likely been cemented into a deep psychological bunker.
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>(Ooops, I said Bunker. And Hitler died in a bunker. I guess that means I'm a national socialist? Which you can't say "national socialism" because it really means, Nazi, right?)