I posted something to Facebook that I thought would really irritate a handful of friends, effectively saying I'm tired of veterans and active-duty military being treated like superheroes, or reading stories about them pounding their chests and screaming "I'm a veteran!" anytime they don't think they're being treated better than everyone else. Well, to my surprise, a few of my veteran friends started to agree, and take my argument even further.
What got me going was this blog that people were commenting on:
http://www.adventuresofabrokensoldier.com/1/post/2013/04/wed-apr-3-2013.html
Apparently our broken soldier thinks he should have freedom, but a private business shouldn't have freedom to refuse service to anyone they choose.
I've personally seen job opportunities get offered to vets ahead of non-military as a part of the job posting. Veterans preferred/Points added to applications of veterans, these kinds of things. This is for jobs where military service really wouldn't be a benefit, maybe a detraction.
My original post below:
This will REALLY piss off a few people-First let me say, I have blood relatives, grandparents, ANCESTORS who served in the military and either literally defended this country on American soil, or fought wars on foreign soil for just causes, but something that has gotten completely out of control is this notion that we should all worship a person, just because they're a veteran or active-duty.
With no draft, our veterans elected to enlist. To throw a fit that their customer service wasn't better than someone else's, or their coffee wasn't free, or they weren't treated better than everyone who didn't serve in the military, has gotten out of control. So respect and admire them, that's deserved, but treating them like they're better than the rest of us, is lunacy. Those who were drafted in years past are the ones who should have any entitlement to that level of respect, and I don't hear them outraged for not receiving constant praises or better treatment than the rest of us, and they were probably treated WORSE than any generation of veteran in America's history.
Are we deifying our soldiers, and letting vets and active-duty get a free pass to bitch about being treated like everyone else?
What got me going was this blog that people were commenting on:
http://www.adventuresofabrokensoldier.com/1/post/2013/04/wed-apr-3-2013.html
Apparently our broken soldier thinks he should have freedom, but a private business shouldn't have freedom to refuse service to anyone they choose.
I've personally seen job opportunities get offered to vets ahead of non-military as a part of the job posting. Veterans preferred/Points added to applications of veterans, these kinds of things. This is for jobs where military service really wouldn't be a benefit, maybe a detraction.
My original post below:
This will REALLY piss off a few people-First let me say, I have blood relatives, grandparents, ANCESTORS who served in the military and either literally defended this country on American soil, or fought wars on foreign soil for just causes, but something that has gotten completely out of control is this notion that we should all worship a person, just because they're a veteran or active-duty.
With no draft, our veterans elected to enlist. To throw a fit that their customer service wasn't better than someone else's, or their coffee wasn't free, or they weren't treated better than everyone who didn't serve in the military, has gotten out of control. So respect and admire them, that's deserved, but treating them like they're better than the rest of us, is lunacy. Those who were drafted in years past are the ones who should have any entitlement to that level of respect, and I don't hear them outraged for not receiving constant praises or better treatment than the rest of us, and they were probably treated WORSE than any generation of veteran in America's history.
Are we deifying our soldiers, and letting vets and active-duty get a free pass to bitch about being treated like everyone else?