Memorial Day 2015

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[Winchester]

The thing that disturbs me about "military worship" and it's kissing cousin "blind patriotism" is it glorifies service and influences youth to join, fight and die for maybe some "wrong" reasons and puts up a shield to frank discussion about what the f**k we are doing because we don't want to discount the very real injuries and hardships our service men and women have endured. No one wants to look a vet in the eye and say it sucks that you were injured, but damn you were stupid to put your life in the hands of our government because they just used you and all for naught.

I don't know if I'm conveying my feelings quite right. I'm torn on the issue, I want to both acknowledge the sacrifice made, yet don't want to encourage more people to go and make the sacrifice, especially when IMO said sacrifice just isn't worth it.

As far as when such a sacrifice is needed it's one of those "I'll know it when I see it" types of things and honestly I not sure we've been in any of those types of conflicts in my lifetime.

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[spacemonkey]

Every war / conflict since WW2 was mostly BS. More like business arrangements really. Todays BS = gangbanging on steroids.

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