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@td5550891035850 @Johnny_Joey Clearly you never served or placed yourself on the line for a higher calling

@Johnny_Joey It’s not 2003 anymore. We aren’t going back, no matter how many heartstrings you try tugging. Americans’ eyes are open now. We’re not dying for Israel and we’re done signing blank checks to create a “warrior caste.” You weren’t drafted, you’re mercenaries who got paid. Stop it.

It wasn’t until tonight that I realized that after I first saw real combat [not we got shot at or the truck behind us took a hit… but I pulled a guy out of a wadi and put him on a bird missing parts and I really just hope he lived combat] I don’t have any pictures smiling. A lot of political opinions and overtures on this app. Even from combat vets like myself. Maybe we all need to take a stroll down memory lane and remember that day when we stopped smiling for pictures. When it was no longer exciting, but terrifying. Not the day we lost our nerve, but the day we actually found it. The day that the hypothetical became reality. The day we took a punch to the face and had to get up off the mat for more rounds. Remember that day and remember those who’ve lived it themselves in the past few weeks, most of them not combat MOSs. All of them heroes. I am so damn proud of the men and women who serve this country. They are not without fear. They are brave with it.