[Georgia Girl 2]

“The last thing they need is a bunch of armchair Eleanor Roosevelts sentencing them to more “finishing school” classes.”

For those with no sense of humor I was joking.

[bigheadfred]

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(GG2 tells a joke)

LOL

[Renderofveils]

For those with no sense of humor I was joking.

I understood the joke. I also understand that soldiers are like any other group of people. Some good, some bad, and a bunch right there in the middle. Since 9/11 this broad "they're all heroes" brushstroke has been painted across the entire military and it's just as inaccurate and quite honestly just as shameful as the "they're all butchers and babykillers" garbage spewed by the left. It's a palatable untruth. It lets people at home remove all of the bad aspects of humanity from a group of people doing what they themselves would never consider doing. Maybe it's a balancing act of conscience to think that the folks out there wielding a gun in your name are infallible weapons themselves. Yeah, it's a pendulum swing from the 60s and 70s, but it really makes you wonder what's going to happen when that pendulum swings back the other direction (and it probably will in the next twenty years or so.)

And for the record, I'm not saying that there aren't genuine heroes in the military. There are. I've met some. And I've also served with guys that would spend their family's bill money on booze and the platoon would pass the plate to keep the family's power turned on. And both of them are called heroes because they chose to wear a uniform.