Join me fellow TGG mates and raise a glass to the men and women who served in the military. Especially to those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Thank you for defending our enduring liberty and freedom!
I stopped thanking people for their service a long time ago in part because I've spoken with people in the military and many of them feel uncomfortable when people say it to them, and in part because there hasn't been a draft in a long time. They chose to join and should have known what they were signing up for. I understand how its been ingrained in American society but frankly serving in the military doesn't make someone any better than the next person. In fact, plenty of people who were/are in the military are huge fucking assholes, psychopaths, sociopaths, etc. Hopefully the hero worship dies off completely with the zoomers.
A large part of this is true. I won't say the good ones should stop being praised but the bad ones, and there are plenty, shouldn't be excused of any and all assholeness because they served. Some of the shittiest people I know served in the military. Some of the best people I know served in the military. They shouldn't be held in the same regard.
Completely agree. I've been fortunate to know a few of the good ones and they set a great example, but they never bring up their service, they're just people who happen to have been in the military.
This has to be the most ignorant and dumbest post I have ever read on this forum. Asshole or not they sacrificed for this country and served. As you said they were not forced to join they willingly made the sacrifice for which we thank them for. Some paid with their lives which we celebrated yesterday. To get on here on Memorial day and spew this nonsense is insulting to anyone that has made the ultimate sacrifice. It is not hero-worship it is acknowledging them for doing something you or I do/did not have the guts to do. There are assholes everywhere as you have proven by your post and frankly it does not really matter if they are or they aren't we're not judging them as people but Thanking them for the job they signed up to do so I do not have to.
No offense you are totally missing the point. You are not holding the person to any regard that is individually earned. You are thanking them for doing a job so we can come on a football message board and argue over a football team. I couldn't care less if they are assholes or not. Often time assholes make the best Soldiers. I do respect the job they did or have done.
No I get it. I will never not respect someone for serving. But my point is you don't get a clean slate at any point in any day just because you served.
Ah, so everyone who joins the military made some huge sacrifice? Is that it? Who’s ignorant now? People like you act as if anyone who ever enlisted fought on the front lines and risked their lives for all of us civvies who couldn’t be bothered. You really think some mess hall cook enlisted man on some podunk navel base made some huge sacrifice? Did it ever occur to you that it was actually the best option he had? I won’t hate in someone who goes with their best option but I won’t be anointing them a hero, either. You’re the problem. You take what your fed and don’t bother to question anything. I won’t even get into the endless amount of fucked up shit our military has done all over the world because it’ll all be lost on you. “The lesser of 2 evils…” or some bullshit. Right? You just go on respecting the uniform, actions of the person wearing it be damned.
No man, it’s definitely you who doesn’t get it, and not on an “I disagree with you” level, but a basic reading comprehension level.
I comprehended and your last post is sickening and disrespectful for anyone that has served. I am not going to get into a political debate with you on football forum and you will now go on ignore.
Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) is a federal holiday in the United States for mourning the U.S. military personnel who have died while serving in the United States armed forces.
I'm late posting as usual To my father, uncles, cousins and all the others that served, thank you. Picture below is from my great uncles interment, went down in the mountainous jungles of New Guinea in WW II, remains were not found until 60 years later.
