Veterans

bluescribbler

(2,277 posts) Fri Mar 2, 2018, 04:45 PM Mar 2018

Veterans, Ever feel like this on Veterans' Day?

She wrote this with Jamie Trent, an Iraq War vet.

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Veterans, Ever feel like this on Veterans' Day? (Original Post) bluescribbler Mar 2018 OP

It's more Memorial Day that brings those feelings for me..Honoring the ones who didn't come home. pwb Mar 2018 #1

I hear you about Memorial Day bluescribbler Mar 2018 #2

I have this thing about them thanking me for my service. Cold War Spook Mar 2018 #3

pwb

(12,210 posts)

1. It's more Memorial Day that brings those feelings for me..Honoring the ones who didn't come home.

Reply to bluescribbler (Original post)

Fri Mar 2, 2018, 05:05 PM

Mar 2018

Veterans Day is more honoring our service. But I don't like being thanked for my service. Most of the time it's just words without thought or meaning.

bluescribbler

(2,277 posts)

2. I hear you about Memorial Day

Reply to pwb (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 4, 2018, 12:26 PM

Mar 2018

Although, they've transformed from a solemn day or remembrance into just another party weekend.

I agree about being thanked. I think that's the point they're trying to make in the chorus,

"And they thank me for my service and they raise their little flags.
They genuflect on Sundays and, yes, they'd send us back."

Certainly nobody thanked me for my service when I returned from 'Nam. That didn't start happening until they needed canon fodder for Iraq.

Cold War Spook

(1,279 posts)

3. I have this thing about them thanking me for my service.

Reply to bluescribbler (Original post)

Wed Mar 7, 2018, 10:52 AM

Mar 2018

I had a desk job and was not even allowed to go near a war zone. Hell, I served 4 years and did not even earn a good conduct medal. Maybe I should get a t-shirt that says, Don't thank me, I only enlisted so I would not go to Vietnam and I was a lousy soldier.

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