Why do we buy into the worship of the military?

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84. The police and firefighter worship started after 9/11.

But the military situation began after the Vietnam War. Soldiers that came home in their dress uniforms were insulted in some cases. There was a lot of lying by politicians and military brass to get us into Vietnam and keep us there as long as our country stayed there (one of my older brothers did tours there as a Marine). So, with the military, some of the worship of the troops is reflex against a time when that was not the case.

In the case of police officers and soldiers, they deserve good safety equipment, good pay and respect, but for that we absolutely should hold the ones that act badly accountable for every bad act, to the full extent of the punishment that act warrants. Unless we do that, we are in a losing battle, if there is ultimately no distinction between good and evil and people seeing that those that did clear evil are punished, we are finished.

One of the most difficult things that I read in the last few days was an active duty Seal commenting that he was glad to see a President back soldiers that committ acts in the fog of war. I am sorry, plunging a knife into a seriously wounded and defenseless former combatant is not a fog of war situation, that is murder, and I would hope that our troops clearly understand that.