Speaking of Veterans, no one I know who's a veteran that I know likes "thank you for your service"

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17. I was a carpenter in the army...

Spent 3 years in Germany building shipping crates, then about 10 months at Ft Riley in an engineering battalion and I was in an armor battalion in the Kansas Army National Guard. First as a battalion staff NCO and then as a tank platoon leader after I went through OCS.

I hardly deserve thanks. They paid me for my work and the only time I fired my weapon was at the range.

What mildly annoys me is the rednecks that I went to high school with posting shit on Facebook as if they served, when I know that they did not. Otherwise I'm indifferent to being thanked for my service.

I feel like a fraud (accepting thanks) because while it was a sacrifice to spend time away from home and family, it was a tiny sacrifice compared to those who had to endure life threateninging operations. I don't want to snatch any of their 'deserved' appreciation.

What really annoys me is all the flag merchandise and the flag waving because I did spend a fair amount of time on guard duty in the military and taking down the flag, folding it, putting it away, saluting it and being instructed in the ways of showing proper respect for the flag and it pisses me to the gills to see people dragging their flags around in the backs of pickups like they're doing something patriotic.

But now I'm just ranting.