Welcome to this platform, Melyssa! There are many people here who are on the same political page including myself. We live in Michigan and have attended Tea Party events. I'm looking forward to your posts. There is a veterans group here. Follow @chairborne and @guiltyparties to get onboard with that. Also use the tag veterans for one of the five tags you can use for each post. May I suggest you add it to this post. Also, you can use www.steemworld.org/@spankcityhall for your personal stats. See you around!