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Some Food for Thought (Please Don't Thank Me for My Service)
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<blockquote data-quote="ftrplt" data-source="post: 408456" data-attributes="member: 32"><p>This general topic is discussed within my various veteran's groups fairly often. Over the last several years, one train of thought tries to explain our feelings toward things such as "Thank you for your service." We appreciate it, although the phrase is of recent vintage (i.e., since the 1991 Gulf War). I can assure you that as a Viet Nam vet, I was never thanked over a 25-year service career. That's OK; when I raised my right hand to take my oath I never thought I would be "thanked." Our biggest concern, those serving and us vets, is that the military is at war; but the country IS NOT. We have been at war in some form since 1950. Korea (still there, folks!!), Cold, South-East Asia/Viet Nam, more Cold, the Pueblo Incident (great word BTW), the "Tree-Cutting Incident (both Korea, again), Lebanon, and others. Then around 1990, we crank up again big time. The Gulf, The Balkans, Somalia, Northern/Southern Watch, Gulf Two, Irag/Afghanistan, now ISIS. The military has been at constant war for 25 years now. Men and women have spent their entire career at war!! But our country hasn't. Back when European history was taught, somewhere along the way, The Thirty Years War and the Hundred Years War were reviewed. I never thought I would live to see this nation involved in its own such wars. But we are, or at least the military is <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> FWIW FTRPLT</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ftrplt, post: 408456, member: 32"] This general topic is discussed within my various veteran's groups fairly often. Over the last several years, one train of thought tries to explain our feelings toward things such as "Thank you for your service." We appreciate it, although the phrase is of recent vintage (i.e., since the 1991 Gulf War). I can assure you that as a Viet Nam vet, I was never thanked over a 25-year service career. That's OK; when I raised my right hand to take my oath I never thought I would be "thanked." Our biggest concern, those serving and us vets, is that the military is at war; but the country IS NOT. We have been at war in some form since 1950. Korea (still there, folks!!), Cold, South-East Asia/Viet Nam, more Cold, the Pueblo Incident (great word BTW), the "Tree-Cutting Incident (both Korea, again), Lebanon, and others. Then around 1990, we crank up again big time. The Gulf, The Balkans, Somalia, Northern/Southern Watch, Gulf Two, Irag/Afghanistan, now ISIS. The military has been at constant war for 25 years now. Men and women have spent their entire career at war!! But our country hasn't. Back when European history was taught, somewhere along the way, The Thirty Years War and the Hundred Years War were reviewed. I never thought I would live to see this nation involved in its own such wars. But we are, or at least the military is :( FWIW FTRPLT [/QUOTE]
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