Comments on: The Conversation: Veterans Day http://archive.longislandpress.com/2010/11/11/the-conversation-veterans-day/ Serving the opinion leaders of Long Island Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:30:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: crankypaul http://archive.longislandpress.com/2010/11/11/the-conversation-veterans-day/comment-page-1/#comment-104271 crankypaul Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:23:17 +0000 http://www.longislandpress.com/?p=127003#comment-104271 Those of us who served during the draft years know who we are. Many of us have similar feelings about today volunteer military and for that reason I feel that Veterans Day will lose whatever significance it still may have. I don’t intend to make an argument about right and wrong, but i can say that many of those who served prior to the end of the draft don’t quite see todays volunteers in the same light. We HAD to go, even if we opted to volunteer for something to have more decision making in our destinies. Today the only ones who go have opted in, oftentimes solely for the purpose of that monthly check and nothing more. The fact that they are caught in the reality of the stupid war mongering leadership in the armed forces is a detrimental side effect of what they perceived as a quick way to easy money and benefits.

Sorry if I come off bitter, but I suppose I am. First Viet Nam (And to a similar degree Korean) veterans got spit upon and called fools and now the volunteers who rarely actually went into war on their own volition are coming home to parades and back slapping for doing their jobs, nothing more.

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