re: Anyone think Veterans deserve more than one day per year recognition?

Veterans Month

Did they not get paid? Do they not get lifetime benefits? Former military get more recognition than any other group in existence.

I would rather celebrate veterans than pride month but since veterans only get one day, I try to do as much as I can. I bake pies for the veterans in my community. One, an elderly Vietnam veteran, had never been thanked for his service. When I brought him a pie and thanked him for his service, he wept and could not stop shaking my hand. Since he had no family, I started inviting him to celebrate holidays with my family. We kept that up until he died last year.

How about Welder Day for the fifty year olds I've seen who can't work because their eyes are shot. Soldiers are just doing a job, just like anyone else.

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Soldiers are just doing a job, just like anyone else.

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Yeah that dangerous arc from your TIG/MIG gun is exactly the same as the grunt in Nam getting mortared while sleeping at 0300 in the morning on some godforsaken FOB.

It’s also the same job as the guys heading down an Afghan road in a Humvee on patrol getting obliterated by a 155mm howitzer shell buried in a dead dog they happened to pass by.

Probably just as dangerous work as a SEAL team taking a joyride on a Chinook right up to the point where they get blown apart by a couple of RPG’s some hadji’s launched into it.

Please continue in telling us that it’s the same job as theirs fkn Einstein….

Month for vets. -3 seconds for fudge packers

What unit did you serve in again? You sound a bit like an entitled millennial that needs he little booty spanked

I’m a veteran and I say, no. I appreciate your appreciation but once a year is plenty.

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As a vet myself, no. We get plenty of benefits already, much undeserved. It's a job that was voluntarily signed up for.

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Exactly. Although I believe that those who suffered life altering injuries should get better care for themselves and their families.

Duh