I think it’s rare to encounter a politician, even a very good one, you’ll have no problems with, but she’s definitely one of the Good Ones.

This is the woman who was dating that doofus from LMFAO. So, you know, context.

Yep, the old guy I helped served in Maine during the war and he considered it a job not something heroic.

Indeed. My grandfather fought in WWII and earned several medals. He did heroic things. He also beat my grandmother and stole the money my father had saved to go to college. So I have a hard time labeling the man, opposed to some of his deeds, a hero.

Your user name is ‘fags and AIDS go hand in hand’ backwards. Like your opinion is anything worth wiping someone’s ass with.

No one is being anti-American here, just anti-stupdity. Obviously the poor aren’t the only one joining the military, but the OP was just saying that maybe these kinds of tributes or whatever they are should be reserved for enlisted men and women who aren’t already gifted with phenomenal privilege.

My mom and dad both served in the 80s, got out a little before the First Gulf War. They both regarded it as a job where they just happen to wear a uniform.

My old man was drafted during Vietnam but served instead in West Berlin doing code-related activities. His old man stormed Normandy. Neither of them have (in my grandfather’s case, had) any time for corporations and politicians cloaking themselves in SUPPORT ARE TROOPS bullshit. It’s cynical, cheap, cloying, I could…

So you are mad, but isn’t the Military complicit in this “prop”. It’s also being used as a promotional tool for recruiting. Just like the military having a say in movies. If the military is ok with this ridiculous farce, why aren’t we. I mean I don’t care about the way the military attempts to promote themselves, just…

Can confirm. 3 years active Army in the 1980s. When Tina Turner said “We don’t need another hero,” I listened.

I work at CENTCOM. Believe me, there are (mostly USAF) people in this very office who call their time here a “deployment.”

Can you honestly explain to me how being in the military makes you special or a hero. I’m not saying there aren’t hero’s in the military, but just being a member of the military doesn’t automatically give you “hero” status in my book.

Rich kid from a powerful family had what was essentially a really long business trip. And it’s somehow treated as a patriotic moment.

3. Fake concern for breast cancer. They make an ungodly amount of money off of selling those hideous pink gloves.

I have a friend in the Army who is in South Korea now. He’s living a nice and comfortable middle class lifestyle in a great and peaceful country. He’s getting very well paid for doing so. Good for him - the military needs people like him to do the work, but it’s not like he is getting nothing out of it. He doesn’t…

My dad did a two-month TDY and he would have gotten a parade just because Mom was tired of being a single mom.

I worked in Switzerland for 4 years. Where’s my family’s halftime show?

I’ve always had a fantasy where they bring out the family and kids, and when they say turn around or Let’s welcome home Corporal Marine Todd, the family turns around overjoyed and then they wheel out a casket with the flag draped over it.

And putting everything else aside, Iran doesn’t want a fucking nuclear weapon.

Given that Netanyahu has been claiming for 20 years that Iran is just years, months, DAYS from developing a nuclear weapon, I’m pretty sure the women in Congress, especially the more senior women, are wise to his bullshit.