affirmative action? They get, for example, preferential hiring upon applying for a job.
No one complains about their benefits, which outstrip pretty much everybody's.
So ... soldiers are like angels, off limits? Why is the soldier hero-worship still so strong in this country? I find it confusing.
Or, I guess, for example, I don't find my college education worth any less than a soldier's "experience" while less than 30 percent of Americans ever get a college education.
OK, considering that ... our country is not always "protecting" us Americans, but is in fact busy occupying other countries and helping install U.S.-friendly dictators. No, I don't accept the lame-a.ss argument that they're "fighting for my right to say this." Sure, some are. Some aren't. Some are rapists and jerks. Can't people get past the hero-worship long enough to discuss the military rationally and honestly? It's taking the vast bulk of our federal tax dollars and everybody's afraid to question it.
Oh, also, P.S., all kinds of people actually sign up to put their lives in danger for crappy or no pay. Let's see ... firefighters, EMTs, police. If I join the Peace Corps, I get little and no respect that a soldier gets for toting a gun along with him/her.
Sorry, Timbo. I have an M.A. and a job. I know it infuriates some soldiers that people won't get down on one knee to genuflect to them.
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