First things first. Thank you for paying your taxes, I can definitely respect that and I am not trying to be clever here, I mean it.
Second, you are certainly under no obligation to respect me for my time in the military. However I ask that you do respect the military as a whole. While recent events have soured many in the public views on the arm services, they do perform a necessary job that honestly has provided the US with a lot of what Americans take for granted today ad allowed our influence (both positive and negative) to spread worldwide.
this is not a blowjob to the flag by the way, merely a statement of fact.
Those of us who did serve in the military, for the most part, believed in this country and what she stands for enough to take an oath to be willing to put our own lives in jeopardy in defense of it.
It does not matter one bit if we were put in the line of fire or not,
we were all willing to be put there. In my opinion this does not make any of us heros. They are people who responded in ways most people could not comprehend in situations most people cannot imagine. That title is earned... I have not earned it
I probably have not earned any respect from you either, after all, what have I done directly related to you. It's ok for you to not respect individual service members based on whatever reasons you may have for it. But being an American citizen and being able to pay those incredibly high taxes and enjoy the freedoms to scream and yell about anything that twists your short hairs.... those rights were paid for in blood by this generation and generations before. So I humbly ask that you try to respect The US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and the Coast Guard. The members of whom do not know who you are, but are willing to risk their lives so that you may live free.
