First, never claimed to be more honorable than anybody. Only took offense to being lumped together with a small percentage. And yeah, it is a very small percentage. Even if you find thousands of them, there are hundreds of thousands that have served over there.
I'm convinced it's not few, but it's not all either. I've seen way too many people over there committing war crimes, killing innocent people, children and animals. I'm not saying it's easy over there. I'm not saying war can't be hell. But why throw a puppy, kill people for fun, shoot dogs and taunt/kill children and write if off as a few? It was only a few Saudis that attacked the World Trade Center, even fewer Iraqis, if I recall. By your logic, we shouldn't worry about the "terrorists" either. It was only a few.
Also, never said you singled me out. But you did include me with your generalities. Just like I included you with my lumping you in with Holmes. There's corruption every where you turn around. Doesn't make it right. But it also doesn't mean every person in that particular field is the same as the shitbags doing wrong, either.
I was speaking in generalities. That was my fault. I get that it's not true for everyone.
Also, saying stuff like "because you ducked a real job and went to the military." Didn't address me personally, but did include me. What is a real job in your opinion, huh? I've worked jobs from oil rigs to construction, to bartending and as a scrub nurse in an O.R. Would any of them be considered a real job? I've also served two separate times in the Army. And nothing I've ever done has been as hard as being away from my family in the middle of a shitstorm for 14 months at a time. What kind of "real" job do you do, Ben? Just curious.
Just curious if you would have done the job if they didn't pay you. I'm not saying it'd be easy. But you signed up for it, twice. So I don't get the point in bellyaching about it. I hear this a lot too.
Like you, I've had many jobs. I first began selling furniture for my dad, began working at Dell selling, moved to Apple, got out of the computer biz and sold wireless phones, then went to manufactured homes, then to cars where I stayed for several years.
Most recently, I've worked in restaurants and am now at a drug company.
I didn't mean for this to get into a chest thumping contest about jobs, but that seems to go with the territory I'm treading.