re: #18 Shiplord Kirel

GOP support for the troops: More monuments, more medals, fewer benefits.

Every once in a while it occurs to me that we seem to value dead soldiers a lot more than living ones, with the implicit message being that the living ones didn’t “sacrifice enough” to earn our full respect, therefore fuck off and die. I really don’t know if I’m just a cynical misanthrope, or if there’s actually something to it. Possibly both. But I have noticed that soldiers who complain about the way {living} soldiers are treated tend to get shouted down, disparaged, called “phony soldiers”, etc.