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Yet thousands VOLUNTEER every year and many come back in body bags or significantly disfigured/disabled. There are strong and weak in every generation, the current young adult one as well.

All war is bad, but yea, riding around in a humvee in Fallujah and having a hidden bomb blow your vehicle up would kinda suck. Today’s war you don’t know your enemy, a child runs up to give you a hug and detonates a bomb, frick all that. Obviously many more died in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, but there are many brave millineals (spell?) that served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

ETA: There should not have been a single American die in Vietnam, Korea, and Iraq, its a freaking shame.

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Posted by White Roach

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Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:34 am to windshieldman

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All war is bad, but yea, riding around in a humvee in Fallujah and having a hidden bomb blow your vehicle up would kinda suck. Today’s war you don’t know your enemy, a child runs up to give you a hug and detonates a bomb, frick all that. Obviously many more died in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, but there are many brave millineals (spell?) that served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

My uncle was born in 1933 and grew up in occupied Holland. For a few years there was a German antiaircraft battery on his family's farm. His father gave the Germans so much shite they moved the guns and searchlights further away from their house. That's balls ...

Anyway, I was talking with him during the early days of the insurgency in Iraq and the use the use of IEDs. His words were, "That's not a war over there now. That's murder." That about sums it up.

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