Don’t be One of Those ‘Entitled Veterans’
Categories: Military
Veteran’s Day is coming up this week. Surely you’ve got your Veteran’s Day plans all hammered out by now. You’re gonna hit up the donut and coffee shop for breakfast, then onto a few restaurants to keep you fat and happy throughout the day. Hell, your favorite bar might just be offering free drinks for you that night. That sounds like a solid plan right? It does, until someone doesn’t know about the promotion or that location isn’t participating for whatever reason.
Uh oh spaghetti-o, now its time to be a real prick and ensure that everyone there knows you served and they should be on their knees thanking you for your service right? No. Don’t do that. Either pay for the meal you ate, or find somewhere else to go without being a gigantic ass about it. Or, show some self-worth and respect and tip heavy so it’s clear that you appreciate the sentiment but you don’t need a handout–just some respect and thanks would be nice.
For a group of people that supposedly are tougher than all the “snowflakes,” veterans can be just as bad (hopefully this becomes less and less of a thing). When you really take a step back and think about all the reasons you chose to serve, was getting a free meal or having some demented form of hero worship take place in your honor on your mind? We’re hoping that it wasn’t.
We all love to get “freebies” but acting like a spoiled child harms the veteran community in the most egregious of ways. You’re supposed to have some bearing and discipline, act like it. We shouldn’t have to say it. Think of us as your battle buddy that will knock you out when you get too drunk. We do it because we care, we want you to not look like more of an idiot by getting uppity about people not thanking you for your service. By the way guys, so you don’t feel like someone owes it to you this weekend…
Thank you for your service. Now go have a good time and don’t be a jackass. Maybe the rest of the country can learn from the example and do the same.
Any group of people is going to have some that push the limit. Article just comes across to be a bit sanctimonious. Thanks for your service John.
I have the honor and privilege to work in the military post did I ever recall off anon post never really heard that situation but understand what you’re saying and thank you for saying what you said and think you’re serving our great country ♥️🙏🇺🇸
Thank god. Been feeling this way for years.
Driving 30 min to work carries a greater risk of injury or death than 2 deployments in America’s longest war. Time to get over yourselves. Most joined because they had no better options, anyway. And for those who did it out of selflessness and sense of duty…what’s with all the gimmie gimmie all day all the time? Perhaps not being an alcoholic clusterfuck of tattoos with a shitty attitude to boot would go a long way to improving your life. Thanks for your service. Even if like most your service was calling in for an air strike to obliterate people too far away to even shoot back at was about all you did. Maybe ONCE.
Wow, bet you are just a ton of fun at parties.
I am. First I show up with food in my beard and cheap scotch on my breath. Then I intentionally bait people I’ve predetermined as likely to disagree with me into a political discussion. I can take offense to something as a “vet” and start lecturing them. Then when everyone just starts to politely ignore me I leave and text everyone in my contacts about all the made of glass ignoramuses and “freedom free loaders” with no clue—complete, of course, with cliche movie quotes and suicidal ideation—before going home to taking it out on the poor person or persons who support me while my bullshit disability claim is processed.
Wow, you sound like a super happy guy.
I’d be a lot happier if a division’s worth of self-righteous man children hadn’t sucked my brother into a web of delusional world loathing and entitlement that would put any social justice warrior to shame. All while seeing himself as the archetype standard bearer for aggrieved and forgotten “heros” —that’s for sure. Veteran culture contributes to suicide. Period. From the shit for brains VA docs that medicated him into a person unrecognizable rather than telling him he was full of shit to the swarm of hand out seeking Peter Pans who never saw combat wanting a D-Day Vet’s recognition —and viciously attacking anyone who points out the fallacy of the mentality —veteran culture contributes to suicide. It creates suicidal, entitled, impossible to please mother/spouse manhandling monsters. It created the Right Wing underclass. With every bit the unemployable, delusional, gimmie gimmie OR ELSE YOU ARE (fill in blank) obsessed degenerates that block votes left no matter how soullessly poor a job is done on their behalf. And I’ve got a box of ashes to prove it. My brother was a good man. The military and his “brothers” changed all that in a giant circle jerk of idiocy.