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A somewhat Disturbing trend?
Lately, I have noticed a trend in SOME of our boys in the armed forces.
Let me start by saying that I did my time in the Marines, and saw action in Desert Storm.
The trend I am talking about is the attitude / mentality of some of the guys that both are returning from 1 or many tours or the boots that aren't even in the fleet yet.
Many have an attitude of being owed something. I see many tributes to our boys and while I agree, they go above and beyond what any human should, it is of their own accord. Maybe you younger guys don't see it but surely some of the older vets are picking up on the trend that we somehow are throwing everything we can at these guys. I mean really, they aren't doing it for free, they get paid, they get discounts, they get job training and money to go to college and a paycheck to boot.
I never met anyone who joined up to serve their country and actually meant just that. There was always, I had no where else to go or money for school or to see the world attached to that statement. I don't believe that as a Marine I ever felt like i was owed something, I enlisted out of family tradition, and for the experience. I believe that the reason we revere and are so thankful to our soldiers is because we made them fight a war under false pretenses and it's the guilt of counting the daily wounded and KIA that make us feel like we need to do more, if people really cared about us both retired and active duty they would fix the disgrace known as the VA and straighten out the little mess Colonial Penn is trying to hide with the Life insurance payments they short changed hundreds if not thousands of bereaved families.
The truth is we do what we do out of guilt, and so before i finish my rant, i will say this: if you are active duty or retired, i will say thanks for following your commander in chiefs orders but most of all, I am sorry, I am sorry for not having a voice loud enough to say STOP, when our politicians were saying go, I am sorry that I wasn't important enough in the world to have stopped the machine of war and death from turning.....I am sorry.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's not my place to say some of the things you have said, but hearing them from you i would have to agree with you. I also agree that we as a nation probably is, for a lack of better words, more thankful for the soldiers fighting a war that most americans disagree with. Anyways, that "rant" was valid and hopefully opened some peoples eyes. It got my attention.
Source(s): ... - 1 decade ago
I'm not sure I can answer this question, but i'll try. First, the men in uniform are fighting a different war all the others we had to fight. The wars of today are more demanding in that they have to watch out for civilians. more than ever. So give them their respect they deserve.
As for the VA, it's up to congress to fix that. we have to push them to do their job by writing them ad telling them to fix it. once a consensus of the people is behind it they will fix the VA.
As a Marine, I don't want to see our boys fighting in any wars. I believe wars are a waste of human life and too expansive. It only makes the rich, richer.
O the whole, I agree with you .
- LT DanLv 51 decade ago
Yea they got this at home from being Mamma's boys the vietnam era got their *** beat, these boys got put in a corner where they just sat around trying to think of how they would not get caught next time...my wife has fun with the new spoil generation in her church nursery, she says that teaching a sunday school lesson in the crib to the under privileged is easier to the 3-14 year olds then trying to get homeschooled saved kids to listen to her lesson in church. Sad, but its their parent's that fail to use the rod.She loves it when the parents bring the rod in the diaper bag because she knows she can call the parents and they will apply the rod and the child will behave in sunday school (my wife works in the nursery and sunday schoolwhereverer she is needed).
- gorgoneLv 45 years ago
"melancholy" is extra severe than mere "disappointment". melancholy is regularly persistent, in that it under no circumstances is going away. human beings regularly get over a bereavement -- given sufficient time. And, as others have reported, an "entitlement" is regularly better than a trifling "determination". Any emotion taken to the acute should be risky. As can a finished lack of emotion should be besides. possibly you ought to go away psychological wellness remedy to the experts. in basic terms declaring.
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- 5 years ago
I highly doubt you were in the Marines based on your trash talk of Army special operations units. I should bash your balls in for having the audacity to lie about your service.
