Happy Veteran's Day! Thanks to all our vets and active duty servicemen/women. (McCain, independent)
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Happy Veteran's Day, and thank you for your service!
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Originally Posted by Galvatron99
They are not owed a thank you. They are doing a job that they signed up for and they get a lot of benefits for that job. If they were drafted, that would be a different story.
Gee, one of the benefits my husband got was Parkinson's disease, likely from using water from wells on base that were contaminated by jet fuel.
I feel horrific that there are people who truly believe that being paid to kill others is somehow honorable.
They don't go and kill government leaders who start all the fights. They kill people who are exactly like them, with families and kids and loved ones who mourn just as deeply for their losses as do the families of US soldiers. What would happen if a govt declared a war and no soldiers showed up? No war.
I realize I am in the very, very small minority. So be it. Veterans Day is very somber, for very, very different reasons than most. I have no desire to debate anyone, just wanted to put this viewpoint out there. I feel very sad for the soldiers, all around.
As much as I like and often agree with Lillyflower --- Your post was very accurate and fantastic.
Not only do we need to employ direct action and immediately try to maim or kill the leadership behind these wars---even if its on our own side---but far more importantly, we need to kill the international bankers and their very system that finances these wars and keeps them going while they lavish in luxery.
If the United States lost its ability to engage in deficit spending and incur 21 trillon in debt, these wars and the phony war on terror would have been over long ago.
They are not owed a thank you. They are doing a job that they signed up for and they get a lot of benefits for that job. If they were drafted, that would be a different story.
Oh, well in that case, we should just call off this holiday all together. Oh, but wait a minute, there are still a lot of veterans from WW2 and even more who fought in Vietnam who are still alive today. Many of which were DRAFTED into service. In fact, during WW2 66% of the armed forces were drafted into service. Not to mention the 25% of our armed forces who were serving "in country" in Vietnam were also drafted into service. Around 500,000 WW2 vets were still alive in this country as of 2017. As of 2004, there were around 2.5 million vets still alive who had served "in country" in Vietnam. Those are some pretty high numbers. I'd be willing to guess there are still hundreds of thousands of veterans alive today who were actually drafted into military service and served our country. And they absolutely deserve your thanks.
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