Muslim in the military a different perspective

With what just happened at Fort Hood, I am going to speak if I was a Muslim, and how it is different in our Armed Forces for them.

Being a Muslim in the military is sometimes more dangerous because other military personal do not know what to do with me. Back before 9/11, most of the guys in my from my division were my friends, we use to do so many things together, like going out and seeing a movie or just eating lunch together in the mess hall. But after 9/11, a great majority of my friends stop talking to me, started looking at me with this look of hate since radical Muslims destroyed about 3000 lives on one day. Don't get me wrong, I thought it was appalling too, what these men did in the apparent name of Allah. The worse things came after they figured out what happened, I was sleeping one night and did not hear a thing, and found the next morning my tires slashed and car very badly keyed with words like terrorist all over it. Come to find out later from a friend that stayed true to me that other military personal had came that night just to do, and nobody in my neighborhood stopped them.

I took this to my commanding officer at the time, and he refused to do anything about it because I could not prove anything more than a friend saying it which was dumb, so thought I would take matters into my own hand, I put up lights that would keep my property illuminate at night so that nothing should happen, boy was I wrong. The day after I put the lights up, I found them broken on the ground with the words "Go back to the Middle East" witting on my lawn. I was not very happy.

Later that day, I found out that I was being sent to Iraq for a week to get the information that was coming out of there, that went over real well with my fellow officers. When I arrived in Baghdad, the transport that I was in got a RPG right in the tail section, and sent the helicopter in a tail spin toward the ground, I ran over to check on the pilots. They were a little banged up and needed help, that is when I noticed that gas was leaking from the tank and then got both of them out of there very fast. Because of this act, all of my fellow officers were finally treated me with respect again, something that I needed for a long time.

But it did not help once again with another fellow Muslim decided to act inappropriate and kill all those people at Fort Hood. I was for a while treated the same way again until the two pilots that I saved step forward in my defense. The other officers backed off since both of them were higher rank and then it all calmed down again, but for how long...