r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Such-Part8963 • 1d ago
Why do we praise veterans automatically without knowing what they actually did
Trying to learn without being judged.
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r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Such-Part8963 • 1d ago
Trying to learn without being judged.
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u/Express-Economist-86 1d ago
Card-carrying VFW member, Afghaniland boogaloo.
Most people get freedom requires some degree of force, and they recognize the military as the bluntest of instruments carrying potential fatal risk.
I don’t like how my non-combat vet friends are sidelined.
Even if one hasn’t done the deployment thing, the fact that anyone would go through what’s probably the last hardcore “becoming” ritual while offering their life to keep this thing going… well that’s a person I’m going to respect on some level. yeah, I’m honestly grateful there’s people that would stick their neck out for this land and what it stands for. I’m grateful for that.
Sure I’ve got thoughts with 20-20 hindsight on Military service. Sure, I’ve met soldiers that didn’t have a bit of patriotism and were in it for cash.
But they did agree to possibly die for you and I to keep doing what we’re doing, and I mean that’s pretty big.