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There's not a single veteran alive today that fought in a war that was necessary for our country's involvement.

Thanks for killing nazis and brutalizing some random street shitters, now I can have cheap gmo hotdogs poison drinking water and two years of house arrest

Memorial day isn't about living veterans, it is about honoring those who died.

No shit Sherlock.

Thanking a living soldier for their service is inappropriate on Memorial Day because it is a day for FALLEN soldiers. The surviving ones have Veterans day. Saying it on Memorial Day just proves you're an NPC.

I was on the first plane to arrive in the US after the Vietnam cease-fire went into effect. I should have left 2 weeks earlier, but the cease-fire announcement screw all the 'routine' flights up. They had 60 days to get all the US troops out. Anyway, the plane stopped in Honolulu to refuel. We had to get off the plane and were herded into a fenced in area, in the sun for 2 hours until we were back on the plane. When we landed at Travis AFB, CA. we pulled up to the terminal, but they wouldn't left us off the plane. 1.5 hours later a TV truck from a San Francisco station drove up near the plane and set up their cameras. Then they let us off the plane and the reporter was trying to get statements from anybody he could, but by then we all really pissed off and everybody was telling them to fuck off and get out of the way. I don't know if they ever got footage they could use. When we got into the terminal we had to go thru Customs, and they inspected almost every enlisted guys duffel bag looking for drugs. All I had was the (borrowed) uniform I was wearing, so I got thru quickly. But, we all had to wait until Customs was done with everybody so we could get a 'briefing' from the Base commander. He told us we could not leave the base in uniform because protesters were outside the gate. My hometown was 20 miles away, so one of my brothers (also a vet) was there to pick me up.

When I got discharged I lived and worked overseas for almost 20 years, rarely talked about being a vet. Came back to the US around 93, not long after the first Gulf War. One of my brothers gave a Vietnam Vets had to wear and the first time someone gave me that "Thanks for your service" I was stunned speechless. After hearing it a couple of times I started saying "you're about 20 years too late". I've mellowed a bit and now just nod and move on.

It’s about funerals for boys still in puberty when they drove over a pressure cooker in Falluja.

The hell it ain't.

"Thank you for your service" makes me want to vomit.

Yeah that phrase is cringy as fuck

I say this to my internet provider.

I think they need a new saying specifically to recognize the sacrifices made without sounding like your mentioning the weather just to make conversation.

I’m kinda over all of it myself.

That's 16 cents less than last year.

It's abiut dying for kike oligarchs.

Why would you say "thank you for your service" to a dead person?

Memorial Day is for remembering those who died for our freedom.

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Oh please nigger, don't you fucking dare.

The US military hasn't fought for our freedom since 1783 or so. EVERY SINGLE CONFLICT since then has been initiated by our government or our foreign policy. Every. Single. One.

If anything, US veterans are partially to blame for the state of our nation. It seems that there is never an unending stream of morons willing to throw themselves on the flag to be "heewohs!".

Fuck! There is always some moron begging to be "thank you for your service". You didn't serve me. You didn't serve our nation. You enabled a corrupt government to push the will of corporations so they could profit.

Thank you for your service, dingle berry.