Hey, Does Anyone Else Think We Kinda Respect the Military Too Much Maybe?

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25. I could not agree more.

And not just in the case of the military either, Sports heroes? really?
I also have a distaste for the newly minted "warrior" culture. As a former grunt, I was a soldier, maybe a war fighter, but never a warrior. To me there is a primal and archaic tinge to the word, a history, one of rape and pillage, of some kind of glory and celebration in death. I have spilled blood and had my own spilled, but I did it as a soldier, disciplined and fearful of the implications, to myself and my nation. I have seen people revel in the gore and do their little dances of death and I was disgusted by it, and saddened that we as a modern people could celebrate the killers as more than average, as a paragon, as HERO.
Those who sacrifice, that gave their singular greatest possession, so that their brothers could live? They are heroes. Men who took incoming fire but didn't return it to save non combatants they are heroes. Medics treating the wounded under fire, heroes.
Those that regressed to tribalistic and savage animals? No, they were merely men, flawed and human and understandable, but they are not heroes.
Just 2 cents from a dirty dogface.