re: Why are we supposed to tell service members, “thank you for your service”?

ty4ys mptf

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The vast majority have never and will never see a “war zone.”

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My dad got free college at West Point. Free flight school and got to fly planes for 5 years. Left the military after his commitment and got a masters degree and phd on the gov't dime using the GI Bill. There were no wars during his 9 years of service. He should be thanking the tax payers for letting him serve

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Korea- Tie goes to communist
Vietnam- loss
Grenada- morale scrimmage win
Gulf I- win
Gulf II- win
Afghanistan- loss

2-2-1 last five. That would get any coach at LSU canned.

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you are fricking stupid lol

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My dad got free college at West Point. Free flight school and got to fly planes for 5 years. Left the military after his commitment and got a masters degree and phd on the gov't dime using the GI Bill. There were no wars during his 9 years of service. He should be thanking the tax payers for letting him serve

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I am sure your Dad is very thankful. But the fact remains at any time during his service he could have been called to do what most us don't want to do. Kill or be killed.

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Korea- Tie goes to communist
Vietnam- loss
Grenada- morale scrimmage win
Gulf I- win
Gulf II- win
Afghanistan- loss

2-2-1 last five. That would get any coach at LSU canned.

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you are fricking stupid lol

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Yep, that Gulf II thing should be chalked up as a tie - at best.

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You are the meme for veteran wanna be badasses. You’re a vag. Everyone can tell by how you post. Next thing you’ll come with is I used to be a cage fighter but…

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I am absolutely none of them.

I ask you again, would you serve?

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Yep, that Gulf II thing should be chalked up as a tie - at best.

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Be careful you don't cut yourself with all that edge bro.

I was a freshman at UK when 9/11 happened. So I was the perfect age. At the time, A. I was partying too much, but B. I also remember thinking/feeling we'd send a crew in to take care of the terrorists and move on. Didn't think it'd be what it turned in to. I'm a conservative and didn't like when we pulled that crap with Iraq a year or two later. I didn't believe in that.

But I have numerous friends who did, a buddy I played baseball with was killed by a roadside bomb over there, and my dad served in Vietnam.

So I have a lot of respect for those guys. You sign up for it. And I sit/sat here with my thumb up my arse. That's why I say thank you to them. Not to patronize them. I'd feel the same as a lot of servicemen do..."man, I don't want to hear that shite." I get it. But I'll say thank you all the same for sacking up and doing a job that needed to be done.

If you can't watch footage of WWII or Vietnam or Korea etc and not understand why you say thank you, then you're not a human being.

This response, like all you’ve made in this thread, is enough to know you wouldn’t serve.