Ignoring the overall implications of this, as a Veteran I never liked images like this. The idea we fight for your right.
Back when I was in, we all had the “are we the baddies” feeling in the back of our heads. Like why the fuck am I in Iraq? What did Iraq ever do to us? I was there during Inherent Resolve, so really most of us felt we were the bad guys.
We said your country had WMD, they didn’t, and now we’re here to solve the problems we created by killing Saddam Hussein. What does any of this have to do with defending your freedoms? To my fellow Americans, did you misplace your freedom in Iraq? What about Afghanistan? Is it in Syria or Kuwait?
There’s no atheists in the foxholes, but most of us would joke about how we can’t make it into heaven. We’d joke about, “REMEMBER WHAT YOU’RE FIGHTING FOR! MASSIVE OIL CONGLOMORATES AND LOCKHEED MARTIN! IF YOU SURVIVE, MAYBE YOU CAN WORK FOR THEM!”
Like we know we are the bad guys! We joined for college and now have to fight for imperialism to earn the right to just not go into debt if you’re lucky enough to get out with all your physical and mental faculties working.
I just want you to think of me as a guy who took a shitty, sketchy job because I was desperate when I was 18 and my recruiter fucking lied to me.
Ignoring the overall implications of this, as a Veteran I never liked images like this. The idea we fight for your right.
Back when I was in, we all had the “are we the baddies” feeling in the back of our heads. Like why the fuck am I in Iraq? What did Iraq ever do to us? I was there during Inherent Resolve, so really most of us felt we were the bad guys.
We said your country had WMD, they didn’t, and now we’re here to solve the problems we created by killing Saddam Hussein. What does any of this have to do with defending your freedoms? To my fellow Americans, did you misplace your freedom in Iraq? What about Afghanistan? Is it in Syria or Kuwait?
There’s no atheists in the foxholes, but most of us would joke about how we can’t make it into heaven. We’d joke about, “REMEMBER WHAT YOU’RE FIGHTING FOR! MASSIVE OIL CONGLOMORATES AND LOCKHEED MARTIN! IF YOU SURVIVE, MAYBE YOU CAN WORK FOR THEM!”
Like we know we are the bad guys! We joined for college and now have to fight for imperialism to earn the right to just not go into debt if you’re lucky enough to get out with all your physical and mental faculties working.
I just want you to think of me as a guy who took a shitty, sketchy job because I was desperate when I was 18 and my recruiter fucking lied to me.
I eat ass.