The thing that gets up my nose the most, is the pretense of these politicians like they care with all the fake tears over dead soldiers. But when the soldiers get home they are treated like shit, and them and their families are just thrown on the scrap heap. they make me sick!
Politicians aren't able to care, civilians want things out of sight out of mind, so we are just some mental basket case, one size fits all. Eventually they will know everything we went through because they saw the movie. We end up being a broken machine that even those that "support" us, really just want to throw a yellow ribbon magnet on their car and forget. Thank us for service, ask us stupid questions. I can't count how many times someone has asked "so how many people did you kill?", so casually too. I haven't had that one in a long time but usually I will make them feel very uncomfortable by returning a question casually back to them "how many times has your husband f$!ked you in the @$$?". They never understand and usually just get offended. The point is that they are mindlessly poking at some of the worst things a person can imagine.
I know what your talking about, I served in the Australian army for 3 years. I didn't go to war when I was in, it was in 1987 - 90, a rare moment in history where not much was happening in the world, luckily for me. I know what your saying about the stupid questions, these stupid people are so brainwashed that they say we should go to war with some country, like it's a sunday picnic. Cheers mate.
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Just read it now, just small minded a-holes, aren't even worthy of a response.IMO
Yeah, you're right, but maybe discussing it openly will bring understanding that it's not necessarily us that are a problem. It's because of our conversation here that I was reminded of that and thought it I might write solely about it so thank you for the discussion.
It's good to get it out, just don't let it eat you up. It's not worth it. Cheers @lumlum85