That is a truly contemptible attitude you have for your fellow citizen. You do no veteran or military member any favors by it.
You serve, so it seems, to earn some sort of thug’s variant of martyr points, which credit you then use to demand eternal and costly favor from all others. George Washington himself rejected such special favors, and you do his service to Country, and his sterling example of that service — one much harsher and longer than your own it is certain, no favor.
With all due respect to your exhaulted civilianness...Shut up and pay your taxes, if that is all you consider the responsibility of "citizenship".
We don't serve for "martyr points". We serve because it is the right and honorable thing to do.
You remind me of my late Father-in-Law who also thought paying taxes was all that was required of citizenship. We may have to defend you, but we don't have to put up with your self-righteous guff.
Are you still young enough to serve? I’m surprised somebody who is so motivated by patriotism and love of country didn’t find some method of serving in our nations military. I certainly do have contempt for intellects that try to compare work as a mason to a servicemember at war. Having grown up in the building trades, I’ve done both by the way, and let me assure you that while framing a house in the cold may be arduous, it’s nothing compared to 18 months of continuous duty in a hazardous fire area.