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No I don't think I was being callous. I am sick and tired of hearing our service members moan and groaning about be posted to a war zone. That is what service members do. They understood this when they took the Oath to defend the United States against all enemies. If they didn't want to do that then perhaps they should have chosen a different career path. Every time I pick up a paper or turn on the T-V there is some one slobbering and bawling because they are being sent to a War zone. I don't remember this as having part of the scene when I and my fellow service members left for Korea 1950 to 1953. It was what we signed up for, it was our duty and what we signed up for. I remember my Brother in Law telling my sister before they were married that his first duty was to the Navy, he had signed up to serve in the Navy, after that she and the family were the next priority. He went from Seaman Recruit to Captain, in the Second World War, and it was never a problem, every time he left port my sister knew it was his job and that was what he did. Times they are a changing.

And y’all never commiserated with each other about it? I have trouble believing the military of which I’ve been a member for a total of 50 years (dependent, active and reserve) has changed so much. It certainly hasn’t in my years. It is, and always have been, the soldier’s right to bitch and moan. It is a grand tradition, and there’s just nothing wrong with it. Maybe you’ve had the misfortune to just see the whiners.

Every time I pick up a paper or turn on the T-V there is some one slobbering and bawling because they are being sent to a War zone. I don't remember this as having part of the scene when I and my fellow service members left for Korea 1950 to 1953.

You are right. The slobbering and bawling was done in private, and not televised back then.