RE: Do you think American soldiers are put on too high of a pedestal
January 17, 2017 at 12:37 pm
That "Thank you for your service" thing was so odd to me, when I visited the US last summer.
Cashiers, waiters and other shop attendants would start off with that if they were facing some military person.
I was told it had to do with overcompensating for the carelessness offered to the folk that were in Vietnam... maybe...
We in Portugal had our own version of Nam, the colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Guiné Bissau... also around the same time as Nam, same gear (as Portugal bought most of that stuff from the US or the UK). So my dad was there for 2 years.... so what?!
He came back, got a job, worked as a normal person and raised 2 kids who now have their own jobs.
I never once heard anyone thanking him for any service and I'd never even think of that possibility.
It wasn't really voluntary, though. Almost every male from that generation went there. It was a stupid war. Then, in 1974, The dictatorship fell and the colonies were granted their independence. Good riddance for those "colonies". Let them rip themselves apart. And those stupid tribal gangs are still at it to this day.
Those countries have enough resources to be the richest in the world, if only they would spread the wealth reasonably among their population... but do they? NO! Idiots!
Cashiers, waiters and other shop attendants would start off with that if they were facing some military person.
I was told it had to do with overcompensating for the carelessness offered to the folk that were in Vietnam... maybe...
We in Portugal had our own version of Nam, the colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Guiné Bissau... also around the same time as Nam, same gear (as Portugal bought most of that stuff from the US or the UK). So my dad was there for 2 years.... so what?!
He came back, got a job, worked as a normal person and raised 2 kids who now have their own jobs.
I never once heard anyone thanking him for any service and I'd never even think of that possibility.
It wasn't really voluntary, though. Almost every male from that generation went there. It was a stupid war. Then, in 1974, The dictatorship fell and the colonies were granted their independence. Good riddance for those "colonies". Let them rip themselves apart. And those stupid tribal gangs are still at it to this day.
Those countries have enough resources to be the richest in the world, if only they would spread the wealth reasonably among their population... but do they? NO! Idiots!
