Thursday is Veterans Day. How will you thank a vet?
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I will be attending our town's Veterans Day ceremony where I will have the opportunity to smile and greet vets. I love listening to the prayer and speeches with a thankful heart. Thank you to all our veterans here on GaG! 🇺🇸
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Today (Friday 11/11) is Veterans Day 2022. How will you thank a vet? I'll be attending our town's ceremony with my family and probably drop by the home of an elderly veteran friend to wish him well. 🇺🇸
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Thank you to all of our Veterans who gave so much to protect our constitution and our freedoms! (11/11/23) 💕
Respects from across the pond. Despite a disagreement back in 1812, since then both of our nations, in war and peace, have benefitted from our "special relationship."
Speaking of 1812... you chaps burned down the White House. Is there a chance that you could come back and finish the job?
I'll call my brother and thank him for his time in the Navy. I will attend a ceremony in the local park for veterans and will sing the national anthem for them as a solo.
Escorted by my lovely mom, my soon-to-retire military dad is gonna lead many retired service men, women, dogs and even equipment into a large gymnasium that my military brothers, my husband & I have rented for the entire day where we and a large bunch of volunteers will repeatedly thank them with a luncheon and a military ball in their honor.
And I also remembered all of my ancestors who have fought in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, and the War in Vietnam.
I do it all the time whenever I stop by to buy a special prescription dog or cat food. For instance, I have to get my cats Royal Canin Urinary SO Dry Cat Food which is prescription-only cat food. So, my vet wrote the prescription and I buy it from her and thank her all the time for keeping all of my animals - 6 dogs, 2 cats, and 2 horses - in tip-top shape.
By dressing up as an afghan, and standing outside their house shouting "why the fuck do you think you deserve peace and family, when you took both from me!" every 10-20 minutes.
I really find this... annoying. You thank vets with boards, but don't give a fuck if a vet ends uo homeless. Words mean nothing when colleagues are suffering from PTSD. It's just hypocrisy to make you feel better...
The problem here is that you are offering words, which don't help those in real need. I am a carreer soldier, so I will most likely only become a veteran when I retire (then again, in my books, a veteran is somebody who has seen live combat, but let's not get into semantics), but there are a lot of guys who leave service way sooner - and they find themselves in a terrible position.
So if people really cared for veterans, they would at least try to achieve good care for those who have honorably left service.
i wouldn't say it's a "sore subject". these days, the nazi label is thrown around like crazy. you think that letting in so many immigrants into germany is a bad idea? nazi. you think vaccines shouldn't be forced by government? nazi. you think the european union fucks countries over that are actually able to contribute economically? nazi.
and of course if you're patriotic, you're a nazi. we're trying so hard "not to be nazi", that we're fucking our own country and the entire world laughs at germans decisions.
@SlightlyEccentric i think also a thing is that since hitler times, germany had no single war fighting for itself in defense or attack. mostly just the UN ordering germany to send troops to some piss poor shithole, that can't fight back against western exploitation. germay has degenerated into americas bitch. that's why we have no national pride and no pride for our military. cause it doesn't fight for "our" interst.
Remind me though, wasn't the nazi party officially disbanded in 1945 and was forbidden thereafter by law from being formed as a political party ever again? It was the ruling political party not the name for the armed forces of Germany.
There is no shame in loving your country. Don't let those idiots who say otherwise try and convince you as such. I mean everyone in Germany knows not to do that shit again, right? So why should anyone who calls themselves German be afraid to love their country? Because some ignorant nutjobs can't tell the difference between loving your country and insane political ideology?
All it is is thanking a vet for doing what few would have the guts to do and that is being a defender of your own nation. All those who say it's wrong to thank vets probably would never have that level of courage. So really, this isn't 1941, this is 2021. If you do see a vet just say thanks for serving and that's it. It doesn't need to be some formal ceremony nonsense or anything.
@SlightlyEccentric well since it's those idiots that govern my country and apparently, the majority is "ok" with it, i do genuinely feel shame for my country.
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