Veterans Day is not good for veterans it shows that they really truly have a sense of entitlement they think everybody owes them something when in fact all they did was a job that they volunteered to do.  There should be no special favors. Thousands and thousands of other people get up and go to work every day and don't ask for people to kiss their arss like most veterans do.  It's a job like any other job in this country nothing more nothing less.    Now if they were drafted and forced to do something then I would understand the entitlement but they volunteered to do this job they applied for it just like the janitor just like the helicopter pilots just like the store clerks just like people at work for any business it was a choice so stop asking us all to kiss your arss.   

but anything for attention

Myself as a veteran I'm almost embarrassed sometimes because of the way the majority of veterans act.  

you're the cringiest

Comment is exactly what I was talking about with a sense of entitlement

Comment is exactly what I was talking about with a sense of entitlement

Vietnam vets are the largest population of vets living today, and a lot of them were drafted.

I actually do get where you're coming from with regard to those who define themselves by their military service from long ago.  I never did understand that.  You see it with the vanity plates and the bumper stickers all over their cars.

When I retired I was done with it.  I'll admit though, I'm not complaining about the 10% discount that I get at Home Depot.  It has saved me a lot of money over the years.

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Today.  His Tik Toc or whatever posts are being underrated by Vet posts.  I love it.  And yeah it was more than a job millennial.  If you served you'd lnow.  Read your history. If we didn't go to Japan or Europe to fight you'd be living under a different culture FACT and occupation 

Pull your tampon out and reinsert a new one.  Seems like you need to change it. Btw glad I am a vet. It paid for all my flight training with the GI Bill. You probably can't say the same thing 😂 

OK the veterans did a good job they protected this country they got paid for it and they moved on no further contract required. we don't have to kiss your butt for the rest of your life we owe you nothing.  You signed a contract you did your job you got paid for it contract over.  

I always believed no one should be allowed to reproduce until having served time.

Think about it.  It'll be just like starship troopers in 1997, get your citizenship....serve.

But instead, you are chemically castrated and not allowed to seed offspring until you prove your worth.  By SERVING.

It would sure cut down on the PUZZY aZZ posts like this because this degenerate would have never been born. 

Just another jealous civilian moaning about something he knows nothing about.  GO suck on a shot gun bro.

I remember my BCT drill sergeant telling me he had a hard time with voluntary enlistees. They acted as though they were entitled, more patriotic than draftees. His perception of draftees were that they were just going to serve their obligation with minimal fuss and get back to real life...

I actually think that the draft could benefit our youth today, but for a completely different reason than most people would think.

In Basic Training, they'd have to learn to deal with other people face-to-face, with immediate consequences resulting from their choices and behavior.  None of this anonymous, social media trolling.  Real, interpersonal interaction with live people is a skill that they don't have, but desperately need.

Not a fan of French guys, but...

Not all singed up freely, some were drafted.

However, I agree that all this Hero crap is over the top. My post office has a sign up the Hero's work here, I don't get it. Somebody always need to be made feel good.

I served and did what I was asked to do. I was fortunate.  Some weren't.  When we signed up there were promises made but not keep. Some needed help that didn't get it.  I don't think most vets my age (old) really give a rip about the hero worship, but it is rankling to see all the bennies the public is giving first responders and newer generation vets.  When we came home we were told to change into our civvies so we didn't get spat on in the airport and the only way to get Agent Orange benefits was to die.  It was worse for the Korean war Vets.

The good that is coming out of today's public support is positive in the sense that the public is finally appreciating what the vets have done for this country.  Some paid a very high price and some the ultimate price.  A Simple "Thank You" does not cost anything .     

I agree 100% with what OldnTired wrote. The history of how US Veterans have been treated (especially since WWI) and how many times the government failed to keep the promises is akin to how slaves were treated. Used and then discarded. The reparations being made now for veterans (especially WWII, Korea & VietNam) is too little too late for some. Whether you were drafted or volunteered, every veteran deserves and appreciates a kind "Thank You"......

sentiment especially considering we have what is considered a volunteer armed forces.  But, that said, it is more a force paid handsomely to protect those without the nuts to stand up for themselves.  It will eventually come to the point where our age of fluffernutters of participation trophies will dwindle the volunteer force to one that needs to be drafted (like I was in 1969) so 'we the people' can once again truly be one facing realities together rather than our current fate of entitled bickering on many fronts while the volunteers get their arse handed to them.  Not a direct linkage?  Think about it.

As to vets volunteering then requiring lifetime care by the likes of you due to wounds incurred on our behalf, thinking is required there too.  Kissing their arse?  If you can't ignore things you don't understand then figure it out rather than casting chrapppp on those doing a job you choose not to do.

Some things are so simple they defy explanation - excepting to the selfish.  

Get a life loser.