Oh boy do I agree with you but you are playing with fire challenging the rhetoric we are just suppose to believe and not challenge. The Rams, Hollywood, and to a large extent the US Government uses the hero narrative for profit and PR, it is how the Pentagon gets Congress to fund whatever stupid silly military weapon…

I stand (sit) beside you. Fuck that bullshit.

And if you point out the manipulation, you merely confirm their suspicion of you.

Agreed. There are soldiers who are heroes, but not every single person in the military is automatically a hero. It does a disservice to actual heroes to call everyone in uniform a hero.

As a 22 year veteran I have to somewhat agree. I was deployed and based overseas for a total of 14 years and the most memorable welcome.home that I remember is when my buddy met me at the airport with a 12 pack and we bit the strip clubs in DC. Those strippers were rough looking!

I make it a point to remain seated with my hat on my head at every Ravens game when they play Lee Greenwood’s redneck pride anthem “Proud to be an American.” No, I don’t need to stand and participate. No, its not rude to talk through it. Its a stupid ass country song, nothing more.

My cousin who was drafted during the Korean War never left the country and was in more danger during his service than this guy. Mostly from the rattlesnake that crawled in his sleeping bag and bit him one night during training.

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.

I like to know how long it took him to figure out how to spell that correctly. I guess he didn’t wanna be the person who writes something clever on the inside of a fogged up car window but can’t understand why nobody’s reacting to it.

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

That’s not what it says at all. It was a well orchestrated political ploy that is already up on the website of a candidate’s campaign page. This had all the authenticity of a really real reality TV show, its real, just with a script to help the real people involved remember how to act spontaneous and off the cuff.…

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.

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…

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

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.