I am sick to death of getting chain e-mails and Facebook notices all about

[sarge43]

14. Well, my husband and I may be unique, but neither of us recall being worshipped or treated special

If we didn't tell you, you wouldn't know we were retired military. Neither of us have ever received discounts for our service, just a couple for being old farts.

Read the punitive articles of the UCMJ. What very few perks we get, we earned by putting up with a massive amount of male bovine fecal material. That's a daily ration. Combat increases it by factor. Oh yeah, can't quit even when it's up to the lower lip.

As this old sarge sees it, the motor mouths that make a BFD about the military and service personnel are working their own agenda; it's the equivalent of wrapping themselves in the flag. In reality they could give a rodent's backside about the grunts, swabs, zoomers, jarheads and coasties. Trust me most of us are on to them and wish they just STFU. "If it's so great, why didn't you step up."

And no that's not directed at you personally. It's for the howling monkeys in the media and the creatures in the rightwing "think tanks".