My co-workers and friends that served in combat in Iraq were certainly anything but lazy or entitled when they were in the service or after. Everything you say in your comment is wrong.
Not to say that there aren't lazy jackasses in the service, but there will always be lazy jackasses. I don't personally know a Marine or a Soldier that didn't do their best when they were in the service. All of them came back with physical and mental scars.
All to fight a war that nobody wanted on either side.
My daughters best friend's father got blown up in Iraq and survived. He struggles every day with the TBI that he received and severe PTSD. He powers through. If he'd gotten blown up in Vietnam, he would have died. But he lived, and has to live with the scars.
He has a good wife, a house, three awesome kids, and he gets by as best he can.
I dare you to call him a coward. I dare you to call my Marine co-worker that went through the battle of Faluja a coward. I dare you to tell my Army co-worker that has zero hearing in one ear and about 50% in the other from a concussion grenade that he was a coward. I dare you to tell my classmate from highschool who got blown up trying to defuse a mine early in the war that he is a coward.
These are just the people that come to mind personally. I've known many others that served that will not say a word about their service. That goes from WWII through current. Many WWII vet's still refuse to speak about their service. Just like guys that only got out of combat a few years ago.
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