Trump wants a military parade

[Dill]

(02-07-2018, 04:50 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Well if they think that's something to make fun of, then that says more about them than us.  I don't feel the least bit ashamed to honor people willing to risk their lives so that morons like them can poke fun.  Just curious, is there anything these remarkable people like about the US?  They sort of remind me of us Bengal fans and the Steelers.  If you can't beat them, try to make fun of them.

Michael, I too am not ashamed to honor people willing to risk their lives. (That was one of my first beefs with Trump, when dissed a POW who'd spent years hanging by his arms in the Hanoi Hilton.) 

But I also notice that among military, they too make fun of the "Thank you for your service" phrase, in part because it is so indiscriminately used.  I know one guy who responds saying "and thank you for sending me to Afghanistan."

If Bels is reading, I would ask if, in the context he describes, the phrase has simply become detached from the military, a way of complaining about other things like pompous bosses or work overloads.  Just wondering.