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Originally Posted by BigRed
I don't agree with this person with regards to not giving a crap if the soldiers are being killed and/or wounded.
However, that being said, there is something interesting to be discussed here: The worship in our culture of the soldier. It is odd. Adds more credibility to the fact that we are a warrior nation and hold the soldier to high esteem.
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Worship?
Are you serious? WORSHIP?
Those troops are at this very moment setting aside the comforts you, without regard to your social status, take for granted... They can't get in their car and drive to... anywhere. Their job has them in a place where people are stuffing high explosives into the bodies of dead animals, old cars, or around teenage girls and detonating them to murder innocent people.
They volunteered to go into insanity... I say that this makes them something SPECIAL and that means I TREAT THEM AS SPECIAL PEOPLE! If I see one out at dinner, I pick up the tab, if I see one pumping gas... I wash his windshield and check his oil... because THAT IS THE VERY FREAKING LEAST I CAN DO, TO SHOW HIM THAT I UNDERSTAND WHAT HE DID AND DOES AND THAT I FREAKING APPRECIATE IT!
Worship? No sport I don't worship them, but I dayum well know that what they're doing goes WELL above the call that most people accept and that doing so make cost them everything... which, again... MAKES THEM SPECIAL.
And if you can't handle it, that THEY ARE MORE SPECIAL THAN YOU... then I suggest you grab the phone book and find a Military recruiter and let them suit you up sport. Then you can be special too and you'll get a first hand look at why you're special... and yes, if you do... give me a call and we'll get together down here in Naples and I buy ya some chow, top off that oil and put a shine on that windshield the likes of which you've probably never seen before... and it will be my honor to do so...
They're special because they do things that are unique among their peers...