“Like I said, gay: you’re speaking to a combat veteran.”
I served, you served, and now its over. You know what they call retired generals once they’ve left the base for the last time? Mister.
It isn’t gay to enjoy watching any team do something well.
For my money, I’m sick of sending people to do the fighting when we should be sending missiles. We should have wasted Afghanistan and probably Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Iraq after 9/11 and then not apologized for it.
Let the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
For purposes of this discussion, let's assume that you did: if you had, you'd have experienced real teamwork, real risk. You'd have seen and experienced what it was like to be hunted by other human beings while hunting them. More than likely, you'd have been wounded and you would have known the pain and fear that comes with that territory. Most of all, you would have learned that the men you served with were the best people you'd ever know and ever would know, since you would know that any one of them would die fo you.
When you came back, you would have run into the self interest, indifference, callousness of your fellow citizens. You would have seen the trite garbage they occupied themselves with, including watching oversized and overpaid individuals cavorting on playing fields and then calling them "sports heroes".
Imagine your disgust.