The last draftee, PTSD, Karens/Kens and people plant their political flags on people that don't want to be used like a cheap whore.

On June 30, 1973 a man named Archie Turner was drafted. He found military life fitted him and retired 31 years later as a Sergeant Major.

I mention this because he was the last person drafted. Since then every single person that has served in the military has been a volunteer. This means that they put on their big boy/big girl pants/panties, signed their name on the dotted line and took the oath, This basically meant that they wrote a check out to the government payable for up to and including their lives.

Every single one of them had their own reason and it is entirely possible that if you ask 100 veterans why they served you will get more than 100 different reasons. Each had their own.

Over the years I've run into countless serving GIs and countless vets and have never heard one of them say that the reason they joined was to be held up by someone as an example to further some Karen or Ken's personal agenda.

A routine example of this comes along on various holiday involving fireworks and the Karens and Kens instantly start in with the "What about veterans with PTSD?" crap.

As Rudyard Kipling said in a poem, 'Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool-you bet that Tommy sees."

Fact is, a lot of us don't like being held up and used to promote your agendas. Fact also is you really don't give a damn about us and many if not the overwhelming majority resent being used to further your personal agenda. A lot of us seriously resent being dragged into things and having words put into our mouths. We know what you're doing. You're using us to further your agenda and a lot of us resent you for it. We wish you would just leave us out of it and that goes for both sides of the issue in question.

Like I said earlier, since 1973 every single one of us that served put on out big boy/big girl pants/panties and stood before the man ant taken the oath. Just because many of us are old and grey doesn't mean we threw away our big boy clothes. We still have them.

If we want to we can put them back on and speak up for ourselves as individuals. We do not need anyone's help...especially someone using us to support their personal agenda.

Now butt out!

  

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