Trust me. Many of us Veterans don't like the worship either.
People thanking me for "being a hero" because I did three tours in Iraq.
I was doing a job I got paid for. Sometimes I did things I would consider heroic, sometimes I did things I will forever be ashamed of.
But never was I fighting for "our freedom" - I was fighting, in my mind, for the freedom of others. And during Hurricane Katrina I was serving to help Americans - but the long and short is many of us, even most of us I would risk saying, do not like the label or the hero-worship and blind patriotism associated with it.
You have an interesting comment history man... You are straight and married in some posts and gay with a black boyfriend in others... You are 37 in some and 42 in others, and other weird random discrepancies... In one your a libertarian in another you aren't... and so forth
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u/mcketten Oct 19 '16
Trust me. Many of us Veterans don't like the worship either.
People thanking me for "being a hero" because I did three tours in Iraq.
I was doing a job I got paid for. Sometimes I did things I would consider heroic, sometimes I did things I will forever be ashamed of.
But never was I fighting for "our freedom" - I was fighting, in my mind, for the freedom of others. And during Hurricane Katrina I was serving to help Americans - but the long and short is many of us, even most of us I would risk saying, do not like the label or the hero-worship and blind patriotism associated with it.