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Chewster posted...

I've been thinking this too lately. I mean is every first-world country like this about their armed forces or just the US?

There are other nations where everybody serves so it's less of a thing. Plus most first-world nations aren't as involved as the US when it comes to actually *using* their military so it's service without risk of sacrifice. And keep in mind that the US doesn't have military parades like some other developed nations, so we don't venerate them as much in that regard.... yet.

Chewster posted...

I think it's at least gotten better in some regard. I remember in the early days of the Iraq War you couldn't get away from "Support the Troops" ribbons and if you didn't support the war everyone thought you hated the troops. Now people have a greater understanding of separating respect for the troops and opposition to the conflicts they're involved in. Though I'm not really sure that's so much a sign of progress as it is just years of people both right and left realizing these engagements in the Middle East have been big failures.

It's literally the same thing it's been, but your perspective has changed. Although you might be seeing less signage because it's been longer since 9/11 which was a time when the country was a bit more together in terms of overall patriotism.
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