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[–]astronautrob 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You make way too many generalizations in your argument to respond to all of them. You're speaking about a whole military industrial complex, I'm talking about individual people who join the military. Again, I would never blame an individual part for the action of the whole. The military in its self is not a bad thing. Read some history, militaries throughout history have been of some benefit for the less "civilized" world (&not just the Romans). But even taking the Romans as an example, the vets of the Roman army probably killed far more civilians than any modern military. The Romans made it a point of thejr warefare to kill any and all civilians in towns even after they've surrendered. When you're thanking a vet you're not saying thank you to the MiC, which was my point jn my original statement, you're thanking them for the sacrifice they gave to be in the military. Everyone makes spme type of sacrifice to be in the militsry, some more than others, &that's all that vets day is supposed to honor or recognize. That these people do or have done a job that requires a bit more sacrifice than your normal 8-5, that's all. We honor a lot of different jobs like this: police officers, teachers, paramedics, etc., it's a way of honoring those who do the jobs that are kind of shitty &other people don't necessarily want to do. No one os asking you to pledge your allegiance to the United States government.