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PsycheV
Make America great again. Pshh. America is still on the up-and-up path to becoming great. Hang in there @OP, not all hope is lost!
CoinOpSpiritGuide
Lots of nice places and people. If you look for negative anywhere you’ll find it.
Bearnaked247
I'm not saying Americans aren't nice. I'm saying that the country's broken.
PirateOne
The US is the greatest country in the world and it is deeply broken. Never let pride get in the way of self improvement.
Ignominious1
Too many people forgot to ask not what their country can do for them but what they can do for their country. Maybe start there.
bigkingdingaling
Amen
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ShoopDeDoop
Every country has bad history and problems. I've been around the world and can honestly say that things in America are not that bad.
Neoeon
Bad is relative. Theres no reason there should now be gestapo.
Bearnaked247
I agree somewhat, I lived in Japan for 4 years and they don't even cover stuff like race problems, keep anything that would make them look
Bearnaked247
Bad to the rest of the world. I think the US is fundamentally broken.
bustedq
No, they aren't as bad as it could get. But it should be a LOT better than it is.
PirateOne
It is a lot better than it was and a lot worse than it will be.
bustedq
Wish I shared your optimism.
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Bearnaked247
G.I. Bill and family
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Bearnaked247
VA doesn't cover everything and I'm paying out of pocket for a bunch of stuff they won't treat.
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Veteran
DirtyImmaturePottymouthedSmartass
I could have written every word of this myself, man. I feel this.
myth1250
I realize it’s asking a lot of anyone, but hold out for 2024. There will be a presidential candidate who wants to actually fix things.
DirtyImmaturePottymouthedSmartass
No, there won't. I served under enough presidents, sec defs, sec states, and joint chiefs to know. There's not NEARLY as much difference >>
DirtyImmaturePottymouthedSmartass
between them as they'd like you to think. All of them see military force as a political tool and a diplomatic option. The only REAL >>>
DirtyImmaturePottymouthedSmartass
question is who they use it FOR, and who they use it AGAINST.
myth1250
1) I can personally attest that an unaffiliated candidate will be running in 2024. He’s announcing his candidacy Election Day this year.
Kennleth
I apologize in advance but I feel I must ask; why would you be up in the air about your military service?
DirtyImmaturePottymouthedSmartass
I honestly think Americans who CHOOSE violence, or advocate it, have no idea what MONSTERS they will make of themselves that way.
DirtyImmaturePottymouthedSmartass
I was taught to see the deaths of innocent people as 'collateral damage'; regrettable, but acceptable.
DirtyImmaturePottymouthedSmartass
I learned to take satisfaction, even find humor, in the deaths of men I now pity for their backwardness and ignorance.
DirtyImmaturePottymouthedSmartass
I called airstrikes. I killed men I respected for their courage defending their country; in a better world, we might even have been friends.
DirtyImmaturePottymouthedSmartass
I also know I saved a lot of lives from people who genuinely deserved to die, but sometimes I think maybe we all deserved to die.
DirtyImmaturePottymouthedSmartass
I have a lot of memories I would gladly forget. I have trouble being 'thanked for my service' by people who don't know what I did.
Kennleth
1Thank you for your honest reply, When I was younger I had wanted to serve and my parents were very against it, my dad humoured me enough to
Kennleth
5/ suppress emotions to the point that you've "killed" them. I know I tried when I was younger, I can read other's emotions better than I
Kennleth
6/ can my own, and I have a lot of difficulty pointing out what has annoyed or angered me, but I'm working on it and I have a patient wife.
Kennleth
3/ 25 years old I called him up and thanked him for not giving me his blessing. While it is difficult to be happy now, I am happy with who
Kennleth
2 to attend a recruitment drive for the field engineers, it was something we argued about often during that time, I was 16. At the age of
Kennleth
4/ I've become, I think those who advocate violence just never developed or nurtured their own empathy, with enough practice you can