Why do Americans glorify their soldiers?

[Wyatt earp]

I always was surprised why Americans glorify their soldiers like they do. I don't mean honorable WW2 veterans or something I mean regular soldiers. I don't get why every soldier is supposed to be a hero. Serving your country as a soldier doesn't automatically make you a hero or anything like that. You have to earn those things like called being a hero or a respected person. This whole glorification of soldiers sounds for me like a cult. I just don't get it.
What is wrong with you???

You should honor and glorify them also because they defend your piss ass socialist country.

 

[DrDoomNGloom]

Nobody ever said it was glorious. We just appreciate the fact that they serve. I do agree that the term hero is grossly overused. That has a very specific meaning that should not be diluted by misuse.

A thing is glorious when it is glorified.

You are a foreigner, your use of the English language is a fucking tragedy.

You seem to be an Islamic piece of shit with a specific agenda.

You are the one who keeps claiming we glorify soldiers, that is your sentiments, not ours.

glo·ri·fied
ˈɡlôrəˌfīd/
adjective
adjective: glorified

1. 1.
   (especially of something or someone ordinary or unexceptional) represented in such a way as to appear more elevated or special.
   "I did the paperwork and was basically a glorified secretary"
2. 2.
   (in religious contexts) made glorious.
   "the transformed and glorified Jesus"

 

[Mr Natural]

Because they work cheap. Start paying them what big city cops make and you'll see that support (especially among the conservatives) fade real fast.

 

[Iceweasel]

I remember a time when soldiers were spit on and called baby rapers. I haven't heard them all called heroes, check your news sources on that, but at least people don't put up with the filthy hippy shit like we did back in the day.

 

[Iceweasel]

Because they work cheap. Start paying them what big city cops make and you'll see that support (especially among the conservatives) fade real fast.

Huh? What a bizarre view. Big cities are expensive to live in and with the crime they have to offer cops enough money to come in and stay with that many liberals running around fucking up. The right tends to be much more pro military.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Because they work cheap. Start paying them what big city cops make and you'll see that support (especially among the conservatives) fade real fast.

You left wing nut cases are always bitching about how are military budget is bigger then the next 10 nation's combined and now you advocate for them to unionize?

What a fruit loop

 

[mudwhistle]

I always was surprised why Americans glorify their soldiers like they do. I don't mean honorable WW2 veterans or something I mean regular soldiers. I don't get why every soldier is supposed to be a hero. Serving your country as a soldier doesn't automatically make you a hero or anything like that. You have to earn those things like called being a hero or a respected person. This whole glorification of soldiers sounds for me like a cult. I just don't get it.
What is wrong with you???

If you had to train soldiers from other countries like I have....You'd understanding why.

 

[cnm]

You are a foreigner, your use of the English language is a fucking tragedy.

Get back to me after you've learnt to link your sources.


The real reason you glorify your soldiers is to assuage your guilt at the war crimes they commit in your name, as there is no draft, so letting you escape the dirty work.

verb
-fies, -fying, -fied (transitive)

1. to make glorious
2. to make more splendid; adorn
3. to worship, exalt, or adore
4. to extol
5. to cause to seem more splendid or imposing than reality

Definition of glorified Collins English Dictionary

 

[Unkotare]

You are a foreigner, your use of the English language is a fucking tragedy.

Get back to me after you've learnt to link your sources.


The real reason you glorify your soldiers is to assuage your guilt ....

And you base that douchebag comment on what, troll?

 

[Darkwind]

I always was surprised why Americans glorify their soldiers like they do. I don't mean honorable WW2 veterans or something I mean regular soldiers. I don't get why every soldier is supposed to be a hero. Serving your country as a soldier doesn't automatically make you a hero or anything like that. You have to earn those things like called being a hero or a respected person. This whole glorification of soldiers sounds for me like a cult. I just don't get it.
What is wrong with you???

Have you served in the military of your country?

 

[cnm]

And you base that douchebag comment on what, troll?

Based on the Nuremberg Principles, the UN Charter and Kofi Annan's declaration of the illegality of the Iraq invasion, arse drippings.

Oh, forgot...and the lowered recruiting standards that were required to fill the vacancies without a draft.

 

[Two Thumbs]

We all signed a contract that basically said for 3 hots and a cot and pay that's less than min wage the US government can send me off to die.

And that is glorious?

To fight for your country?

how is it not?

 

[Unkotare]

And you base that douchebag comment on what, troll?

Based on the Nuremberg Principles, the UN Charter and Kofi Annan's declaration of the illegality of the Iraq invasion....

None of that bullshit supports your idiotic comments, cur.

 

[regent]

I think Kipling's "Tommy" does it best, put a nation in danger and the military becomes valuable, when the danger passes a sign goes up in the local bar, "PLEASE NO DOGS OR SOLDIERS.

 

[cnm]

None of that bullshit supports your idiotic comments, cur.

All of it does, arse drippings. Your soldiers implement the policies of a rogue nation, you glorify them to make it seem as though their actions on your behalf are not illegal and to assuage your guilt at sitting safe while they do the dirty work.

 

[cnm]

I think Kipling's "Tommy" does it best, put a nation in danger and the military becomes valuable, when the danger passes a sign goes up in the local bar, "PLEASE NO DOGS OR SOLDIERS.

Yeah, yeah, a nation in danger.

I guess you were all waiting for the first wave of Iraqi landing craft up the Hudson, eh?

 

[cnm]

To fight for your country?

how is it not?

See the Nuremberg Tribunal findings.

 

[Unkotare]

None of that bullshit supports your idiotic comments, cur.

All of it does....

Wrong, moron. It only reiterates and insists upon your impotent and irrelevant bias, you presumptuous prick.

 

[MaryL]

I always was surprised why Americans glorify their soldiers like they do. I don't mean honorable WW2 veterans or something I mean regular soldiers. I don't get why every soldier is supposed to be a hero. Serving your country as a soldier doesn't automatically make you a hero or anything like that. You have to earn those things like called being a hero or a respected person. This whole glorification of soldiers sounds for me like a cult. I just don't get it.
What is wrong with you???

What IS wrong with glorifying them? What is wrong with YOU ? Is this going somewhere?

 

[daveman]

None of that bullshit supports your idiotic comments, cur.

All of it does, arse drippings. Your soldiers implement the policies of a rogue nation, you glorify them to make it seem as though their actions on your behalf are not illegal and to assuage your guilt at sitting safe while they do the dirty work.

Your butthurt is not proof.