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Why? Why do most Americans hold veterans and current members of the U.S. military in such high esteem? Why is there such a military mindset in the United States?
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Dear Mr. Vance:
I don’t know about “most Americans”; which I would quibble includes Canada and Mexico. Assuming that by “Americans”, you mean to use the label to create a collective of all those under the thumb of the gang in WashDC. I still don’t “know”.
But perhaps it is because the country “asked” and these boys and girls stepped up.
Now maybe “asked” is too nice a word; “drafted”, seduced, fooled, propagandized might be better. And, maybe we can question if they were out of their minds to do it. Or, we can see now with the clarity of 20/20 hindsight that the American people have been being duped by their politicians for eons.
But, I honor vets, not because I am one, but as Heinlein put it, “The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war’s desolation.”!
We can argue about rightness or wrongness; we can search for wisdom or whizdumb; we can all vie for the title of who’s “the bigger fool”; we can examine in excruciating and exhaustive detail about if they were brainwashed, deluded, or truly heroic.
But, at the end of the day, the fact is they “stepped up” and put themselves in Harm’s Way on the belief that they were protecting the liberties of their fellow citizens.
That’s Heinlein’s “civic virtue”.
And, I think that answers your question.
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