Like Coen:

Year ago, while I still had to do military service, we had to attend a camp for two months on the border, at Ondangwa, up in Namibia.

The officers’ mess was decorated with pictures of girls in very little clothes and then we had the usual comments during mealtimes.

Until one day when I could take it no more and I (being a junior officer) took on the Commandant.

I asked him: “Commandant, if one of these girls would have been YOUR wife or YOUR daughter, would you be happy to discuss her in the way that you are discussing these girls? Would you be happy to have HER picture posted on a wall at an officer’s mess for everyone to enjoy and to marvel about?””

There was a few moments of shocked silence and I expected a huge explosion because I dared to take on the commander like that. But he at last admitted that this was a wrong thing to do and he asked for the pictures to be removed.

A few days later one of my fellow officers came to me and he confessed that my remark also opened his eyes and that he from now on was going to change his life.

#Godswordintodayswords #dontbeafraid #standupforwhatisright