Trace Adkins reflects on 2011 fire, giving back to veterans: ‘It's been the great privilege of my career’

[basquebromance]

great music, great person

Trace Adkins reflects on 2011 fire, giving back to veterans: ‘It's been the great privilege of my career’

Country music star Trace Adkins, who is making his mark in Hollywood, has always been passionate about supporting our veterans.

www.foxnews.com

 

[night_son]

great music, great person

Trace Adkins reflects on 2011 fire, giving back to veterans: ‘It's been the great privilege of my career’

Country music star Trace Adkins, who is making his mark in Hollywood, has always been passionate about supporting our veterans.

www.foxnews.com

If Adkins truly wished to honor veterans he would have signed his name on the dotted line like the rest of us.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

If Adkins truly wished to honor veterans he would have signed his name on the dotted line like the rest of us.

How do you know he was eligible? He had a knee injury that cost him his college football career and later had his finger cut off in an accident, both of which likely made him physically disqualified.

You should not assume so much.

 

[Mushroom]

If Adkins truly wished to honor veterans he would have signed his name on the dotted line like the rest of us.

Not everybody should join the military, nor can they.

That is a copout claim that I always hated. "Oh, if he cared then he should have joined too!" Normally given purely as an attack. And one I quite often ignore, or ridicule as a great many who claim that never served themselves.

 

[night_son]

Not everybody should join the military, nor can they.

That is a copout claim that I always hated. "Oh, if he cared then he should have joined too!" Normally given purely as an attack. And one I quite often ignore, or ridicule as a great many who claim that never served themselves.

You are welcome to your opinion, and no doubt you are going to express it. In my own experience "veterans" who seek and/or bask in the almost religious like votive of "Thank you for your service" are often glory seekers or never served a day. Myself . . . I despise it. Civilians who obsess thanking veterans for their service seem to be themselves seeking praise for their own insistent insouciant praise. Those words to me and many of my brothers are hollow; too oft repeated and meaningless.

For many years after beginning active duty Army service I despised civilians and even "leg" fellow soldiers. "If you weren't Airborne you weren't shit." Long ago spoken words of an Airborne training battalion sergeant major. And I absolutely believed them. Religiously. It is my opinion no one need be thanked for their service. If they do feel the need to be celebrated and thanked then something is wrong with that picture. We were there because we volunteered to be. That's it.

Men like Adkins will never know what it feels like—no matter how much attention they draw to themselves with their "Thank you for serving" publicity campaigns. That's how I feel about it and I am not alone.