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In reply to the discussion: Why do we buy into the worship of the military? [View all]BigOleDummy
(2,260 posts)I am a proud veteran myself. This thread , while making a few good points, has dismayed me beyond belief. Poor white kid here but if not for my military service I would never have gotten the inner discipline and confidence to make it as well as I have.
I don't feel like I wasted my time in the Army nor do I think we (active duty and veterans alike) are useless and "not needed". One of our more astute Presidents was a lifelong military man. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Ring a bell? How about this one "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."? One need only to look at our current White House occupant and his lapdogs to see the truth of the latter.
For the first time since I started coming here I feel insulted by a thread.