RE: veterans day
November 13, 2011 at 6:27 pm
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2011 at 6:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I assure you we at least fought for our freedom to not be shot. The rest of it is pretty dicey I agree. So did many of the people I served with, including wiccans, tree huggers, openly gay soldiers, etc etc etc. Some of us were as adamantly against the use of violence as any monk (objector status infantry). If nothing else, just trust me that the service can be an extremely shitty job, and if people didn't volunteer they'd just draft the rest of you. Lets at least give governments the credit for being that shitty. None of that has anything to do with vets though, who should be able to take as may holidays as they please. Especially in the case of wounded vets, who should get to take a paid holiday for every piece of metal that hit them. So, happy belated veteran's day (I went and got bombed out of my gourd with an army buddy in Ohio).
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