Why is it that veterans don't call out their supporters to fight?

Question

But all of your liberals call them out. "If you support it so much, why don;t you join?" That crap. I have seen questions regarding NASCAR fans, chickenhawk this and that...
Do you think that the cheerleaders need to tackle a 275lbs fullback to be able to support the team?

I don't feel that all people are called to join the military. I have no problem with that. I was. And I would never ask someone who supports my effort to join if that wasn't their calling. How do the rest of you think you have the right to call them out? "Right" being used in a less literal manner, ie ther than the right of free speech. (which soldiers gained you and have protected)

I mean, would you want us to say: "If you love your free speech, freedom of religion, freedom to assemle, and freedom of press so much why don't you join the military and serve to protect them."

*Grammar/Spelling Nazis need not apply

So if you supoprt a team you should play? If you support NASA you should go to the moon? If you support the choice of abortion you should have one? If you support the death penalty you should kill a criminal? If you support the fight against illegal immigration you should become a border agent?

JuJu, send me an email and tell me how so.

I'd am glad that I serve next to volunteers. You know the guy next to you chose to join and has some sense of pride in service. I think that the military could do most folks some good - structure, discipline, work ethic.

I wasn't poor or uneducated when I joined (or now). I didn't lose a job or face starvation. I was a senior in college that felt a call to serve. I'm married and don't have a criminal history. It isn't for the money. But hey i guess some just don't get it....and can't understand why there are patriots left in this country.

OIF Veteran

Answer 1

If there was a war going on that I felt was really a necessary war (most wars aren't, however), then I would join up in a heartbeat. This war isn't my kind of war. I'm a liberal though, not a vet or a conservative...so you weren't really asking me, at least I don't think you were.

Answer 2

I'm an Iraq vet and i agree with JUJU When I joined I was an idealist like yourself but after spending a year of my life in the middle east and having some friends come back in coffins. The means don't justify these ends. Open your eyes before your wife gets to buy a new house with your life insurance after you get bombed by a guy whos children were lit up by airstrike. War is hell. It isnt cool. It isn't right. Combat isn't an honor. It's hell get your head out of your fifth point of contact.

Answer 3

In a sense, yes. Many countries around the world have their young people serve their country in some capacity for a time. Amoung them are Germany, the Netherlands, Israel. There is nothing wrong with asking people to invest time into some type of national service. It is so easy to open your mouth and say you support the troops or America and then go on your merry old way without any type of commitment to the country. I am a veteran of Viet Nam and I was drafted. There is nothing wrong with having the young people of this country having to serve it.

Answer 4

This may be a volunteer military, but college tuition costs are soaring and manufacturing jobs have flown out the window for the most part... So now its starve to death or become a waiter or shoe salesman for most people... instead they join the military and go to war. Sure its a choice... but its more a matter of income than patriotism... being called a patriot is more of a job perk these days.

All those statistics about rich kids joining up are complete bull!! just go ask any young enlistee!!

Don't talk to me about structure or discipline!! I know plenty examples of kids in military and older 20 somethings gone wild with no repercussions... maybe in certain branches of the military, but certainly not where I'm at. Its disgusting. "Work-ethic"?? Don't make me laugh!!

Is it a reflection of Americas high quality of education that college costs so much more now... or is it something else???

PS Veterans do call up their supporters to fight and others don't because they don't think its a good idea for people to do so. Where did you come up with the idea that veterans don't ask their supporters to fight??

JUST WHO do you think sponsors all those fancy a$$ dragon slayer commercials and recruits new soldiers??

If you even take one second to think about it... this question is completely ridiculous.

Answer 5

Some of us Veterans are too old to join the military today, however we do have sons, and one of mine was killed in Iraq.

If a person supports this war, then they should be willing to go and defend the war, instead of doing nothing but flapping their jaws.

Instead, they prefer to see someone else's life laid down to protect their sofa-sitting, bon bon eating, baby making body parts.

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Answer 6

I was in the U.S.M.C. for 8 years,(Vietnam) so people in America can say what they want, and do pretty much what they want.
I will not tell them what to say,or how to act. No one should,
this is there America too.

Answer 7

Well I'm an Iraq vet and I wouldn't dream of making other people waste their lives in that place, the war is a fraud and is ruining our military and country.

Answer 8

A very excellent post. Sadly, from my short time here, it has too much common sense for this crowd.

Answer 9

agreed!!

Answer 10

we are to depressed by it all.