Did you forget you enlisted? You volunteered for all this? And you knew what you were volunteering for?

No, sorry, you don’t get exalted status for that. You get respect, but not a higher station in life. You do a job, just like everybody else. You’re not any smarter, or any more worthy, than any other citizen. Your opinion doesn’t count for more just because you wear a uniform, and your vote counts the same as mine.

I’m told to accept a minimal salary because I understood that was the case when I signed on to be a teacher. The same goes for you: you know what you signed on for, so accept it, do your job, and quit posturing like you’re something super special.

Although I’m sure a chopper jockey would be privy to the plans of the commander-in-chief who won’t even BE commander-in-chief for twelve more hours. Surely he’s issuing all sorts of orders to the rank-and-file military already.

For the record, what I heard Obama say during the campaign is that he would pull out our troops as expeditiously as possible without endangering those same troops. If it’s 16 months, great. If it’s more than that, fine.

At least it won’t be 100 years.

Di- don’t you dare insult me, I knew there was something wrong with him before I voted. Any informed voter would have. I didn’t have to know the specifics. Just remember the next time you use your freedom of speech, if it wasn’t because of the military you say doesn’t deserve to be exalted, you wouldn’t have that at all. You’d be speaking German you prick.
I’M ALLOWED TO VOTE BECAUSE I FOUGHT FOR YOUR GD FREEDOM! THAT’S REASON ENOUGH! I don’t have a 9-5 job, it’s 24-7. You don’t know what that’s like. To worry that any given hour you could get a call that you have to be ready to deploy in a 48 hr notice. Say good-bye to your family, you won’t see them for the next year, birthday’s anniversaries, Christmas, New Years, and every other holiday in between. I’m saying it now WE DO DESERVE SOMETHING MORE. We put OUR lives on the line for YOU. So you can disrespect us, and we do it voluntarily. What did you do for me? Nothing. So the next time you lay your head down to sleep at night in this GOD LOVING FREE COUNTRY, just know it’s because of me and veterans like GTP that you can feel safe to lie your head down at night.

Second, while I am very grateful for the job our military does in protecting us, they don’t rate exalted status. Nothing about putting on a uniform means that you know better or worse than anybody else. You decry those who knew nothing about “these scandals” still being allowed to vote, but you admitted yourself that you didn’t know of them. So why are you allowed to vote?

If it allows you people to sleep at night, just keep hanging on to the misguided notion that 70 million people were victimized by mass hypnosis and/or mass hysteria, which is the reason Obama will be sworn in as President tomorrow.