No, I am not thankful for your service. Sorry.

[xellos88330]

Hows that work? You can't be a single parent and enlist. Plus, they dock your paycheck for child support.

This is true. If anything you are penalized more than a civilian is.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

rofl

where did the OP come from? What set off lil mo?

[spursncowboys]

while the OP is a dumbass and there's certainly honor in serving your country, what we are currently doing overseas right now is definitely not honorable.

Do you have first hand knowledge of that?

[spursncowboys]

Rationalize your decision however you want. But basically what you do is a JOB. Your JOB is as honorable as being a trashman or clothing retailer or mall security.

I doubt you could do my job.

[spursncowboys]

I support veterans of real wars, like ww2 and vietnam

What's funny is in the time Vietnam was going on, there were the ones who said Vietnam wasn't a real war.

[spursncowboys]

It's not one particular individual as it is society as a whole thinks we should feel this way. I'm not gonna sit here and say "Frank, my neighbor down the street who was in the army says....."

No, no, it more has to do with all of these military appreciation nights and wear your uniforms and get a free grand-slam breakfast, or some bull .

hatin.
What job do you have?
Do you want a living off your mom appreciation night at the club?

[mookie2001]

What's funny is in the time Vietnam was going on, there were the ones who said Vietnam wasn't a real war.

Thanks for the history lesson oldtimer

[DMX7]

John McCain can tell you all about the Mexican–American War. That was a real war.

[spursncowboys]

I'm not one who gets along with this poster but +1 on the thread. People who think voluntarily serving in the army deserves some special privileges in society are morons. You enlisted to go occupy a country that was never a threat to the US, don't come back and expect me to slob your knob, and especially don't come back acting like you have some expert opinion on all the good you were brain washed into thinking this war does.

So you are saying you know more than me from your education of cnn and msnbc? dumbass. Who's brainwashed...yeah i guess killing terrorists who are going into the village raping and torturing their neighbors didn't help anybody. Clearing fields with american blood and result is the kids get to play in that field. Hearing story after story of what the Baath party did to dads, moms, brothers and sisters were just made up. I guess that graph and chart in the NYT covered all the real stuff right? Also I don't think a regular job puts you 15 months away from your family ass-clown. In harms way. There were plenty of people i deployed with who were against OIF and deployed. Because they made a commitment.

[spursncowboys]

Thanks for the history lesson oldtimer

Hey it's the gangbanger. where's your set internet thug?

[spursncowboys]

if i really wanted to help my country and protect the freedoms of millions of Americans, id get an education and become a diplomat. but diplomacy never works, right?

just throwing this out there, but josephus daniels saved alot more American lives by being an ambassador than secretary of navy. especially the lives of soldiers.

Only one occupation got us our rights and maintained them:
Soldier

[spursncowboys]

I always wondered if there is such a great amount of honor for serving and if people do it for honorable reasons then why do the majority of enlisted men and women come from poor backgrounds?

While I definitely believe some people join up out of a sense of honor or patriotism I'm not sure you can say that about most who enlist.

The bonus will not compensate for the amount of money lost from going out of the private sector.

[JoeChalupa]

Everyone joins for different reasons, of course, but it's not an accident that recruitment methods/incentives are targeted specifically at poor and/or minority communities. The fact that joining the service is the only way that huge portions of the population can realistically access educational opportunities or health care (or whatever) is by design.

Everyone loves patriotic enlisted hero types of any shade, and the clean cut white boys are great for public relations, but if there's going to be a lot of casualties in war it certainly doesn't hurt to appeal to the expendable folks.

The "expendable" folks have been fighting the battles for centuries and that will always be the case. During the Civil War, Lincoln himself credited the joining of so many African-Americans in the Union Army that turned the tide of the war.

[Soul_Patch]

I cant tell if this post is a troll job, or for real...but its pretty uninformed...

[TheManFromAcme]

You always thank a servicmen/woman. A no-brainer.
What a liberally infested place. Geez.

[Brobee]

It's nice to be nice, and to use you're manners every day!

[I. Hustle]

I cant tell if this post is a troll job, or for real...but its pretty uninformed...

Most def a troll job but it's fun to argue on the internets.

[SAGambler]

lil'mo. I doubt anyone here, whether they served or not, needs nor even wants your thanks for anything. Opinions are like assholes... Everybody has one.

Now hurry up and get dressed for your shift at McDonalds.

[AFBlue]

You aRe the one trying to argue for the significance of a single enlisted person. My original argument was lost on all you butt hurt "vets" crying about how you should be held in higher regard and how what you do IS special. I've maintained from the beginning that you are as important to out society as trash men. Do you disagree???

The "butt hurt vets" didn't defend our right to feel special, we defended a random claim that we're by and large a group of poor, lazy, and/or stupid people with no higher career aspirations that basically settled for this "job".

No one, and I repeat, no one asked you or anyone else on this board for you to hold them in higher regard than another person.

Sadly, you spent your time demeaning the people and the service when you should've been angry at the non-vets who established this double-standard of higher praise and recognition.

Maybe you should look at this in a positive way and start a grass roots campaign to establish garbage-man appreciation days at local events. I tell you what, I'd be the first to sign up and attend...to show my support for those fine Americans.

[lil'mo]

I cant tell if this post is a troll job, or for real...but its pretty uninformed...

No troll job... for real... I'm not thankful for you doing your job. Why should I thank you for doing something you are paid to do? It's a job and you chose it over other options. I don't expect displays of gra ude of free denny's breakfasts for the work I do.

[I. Hustle]

Maybe you should look at this in a positive way and start a grass roots campaign to establish garbage-man appreciation days at local events. I tell you what, I'd be the first to sign up and attend...to show my support for those fine Americans.

That is what I am saying. All these idiots on here complaining about how garbage men should get the same praise or that they want to know percentages of who is doing it for money and who is patriotic need to do something about it. ing and moaning isn't going to do . If you are that passionate about those things then go make it happen. Otherwise why cry and complain if you are just going to sit there eating your failure pile in a sadness bowl.

[z0sa]

I always wondered if there is such a great amount of honor for serving and if people do it for honorable reasons then why do the majority of enlisted men and women come from poor backgrounds?

During which period of time (and place, if necessary) has this trend been different?

[I. Hustle]

No troll job... for real... I'm not thankful for you doing your job. Why should I thank you for doing something you are paid to do? It's a job and you chose it over other options. I don't expect displays of gra ude of free denny's breakfasts for the work I do.

Ok but not every soldier expects praise. I am pretty sure that McDonalds has employee appreciation stuff and your fellow employees get recognized for doing stuff they should be doing anyway. Sure it's a much smaller scale but people get everyday just for doing what they are supposed to do.

[I. Hustle]

During which period of time (and place, if necessary) has this trend been different?

Maybe he should watch Gangs of New York lol

[Soul_Patch]

No troll job... for real... I'm not thankful for you doing your job. Why should I thank you for doing something you are paid to do? It's a job and you chose it over other options. I don't expect displays of gra ude of free denny's breakfasts for the work I do.

How old are you?