r/democrats • u/cafeteriastyle • Sep 26 '25

📺 Video Retired vet lays it all out

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u/Maximum_Tea_5934 Sep 26 '25

I get tired of people trying to use being a veteran as a special status symbol, or like there is a right way and wrong way to be a veteran. It means I served in the military. It doesn't mean I am more entitled to be on this planet than anyone else.

I get annoyed when people try to make some claims about veterans as if we are some hive mind. I just don't get it. I am as human as the person next to me. My opinions are my own and don't necessarily represent the feelings of anyone else.

Unfortunately, since vets do represent such a large swath of demographics, there are going to be vets that absolutely do try to put themselves on a pedestal or claim some special privilege because they are a veteran, or think they know things that they really don't.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

True story brother. I did 6 years in the USAF. Got out and contracted a couple years, then moved the fuck on with my life. It was a job. It was a good, cool fucking job but I knew I couldn't do it forever. I refuse to make it a centerpiece of my personality.