Yet, another strike to my faith in humanity
I was going to make this long post to express my varying degrees of irritation towards people who constantly disrespect people in the United States Armed Forces. I, however, decided to keep it simple.
A person does not support the troops, fine. A person does not like the military, the people who serve it in, or anything the insitution stands for, fine. Say so, and back it up with a suspenseful arguement so as not to put me to sleep when I attempt to listen. However, if people insist upon acting like 9 year olds by name calling, and simply making statements such as, "Fuck the Army," for no other reason than being petty, I say treat them like my 4th grade teach treated people who did such things. She stuck with the classic, "If you have nothing nice to say, do not say anything at all." I would even go as far as to say it in the same condescending, belittling voice as she did. It is simple, to the point, but I have my own addition. If you have nothing relatively intelligent to say on the matter, and choose only to spit venom about or towards military personal, then just keep it to yourself.
Would you say something so ignorant to a WWII combat veteran who lost a limb for his country? Or a Vietnam veteran who may not have believed in the cause but now suffers from the determental effects that the ordeal had one him/her all to fulfill an obligation? Would you say it to my father, who became a citizen of this country so he could proudly serve it? Would you say it to the widow and 2 daughters of a 23 year old soldier who died in Iraq? Or any widow at all for that matter?
Because if you can not say nasty, hatelful things about the military and service men and women to those listed above, then you should not be saying them at all. Period.
A person does not support the troops, fine. A person does not like the military, the people who serve it in, or anything the insitution stands for, fine. Say so, and back it up with a suspenseful arguement so as not to put me to sleep when I attempt to listen. However, if people insist upon acting like 9 year olds by name calling, and simply making statements such as, "Fuck the Army," for no other reason than being petty, I say treat them like my 4th grade teach treated people who did such things. She stuck with the classic, "If you have nothing nice to say, do not say anything at all." I would even go as far as to say it in the same condescending, belittling voice as she did. It is simple, to the point, but I have my own addition. If you have nothing relatively intelligent to say on the matter, and choose only to spit venom about or towards military personal, then just keep it to yourself.
Would you say something so ignorant to a WWII combat veteran who lost a limb for his country? Or a Vietnam veteran who may not have believed in the cause but now suffers from the determental effects that the ordeal had one him/her all to fulfill an obligation? Would you say it to my father, who became a citizen of this country so he could proudly serve it? Would you say it to the widow and 2 daughters of a 23 year old soldier who died in Iraq? Or any widow at all for that matter?
Because if you can not say nasty, hatelful things about the military and service men and women to those listed above, then you should not be saying them at all. Period.