Does it bother you to hear "Thank you for your service!"?

The response to this single guestion has been fantastic. Not only for the "welcome home", but the "thank-you"s". Truly the y are all greatly appreciated, but being that it has been so many brothers and sisters in arms is so great. My only wish would be that the thousands before us, the 57,000+ in my time and the thousands after could hear and know our graditude and love. My hero's are bared in graves around the world and I know the greatest "welcome home", will come from them when I leave this world. I truly hope that each of us can find a moment in our lives to look towards the heavens and say "thank-you" to all the brave brothers and sisters who can't hear it from others.

Doesn't bother me in the least. I wear my Viet Nam Veteran cap frequently & have had people buy me lunch, pay for my groceries as well as thanking me. Perhaps you should re-think your interpretation.

Yes it bothers me, hell it was my job, I got paid.

I both appreciate it and resent it. It is good that people are finally realising that Veterans have made sacrifices, but I am starting to see it as an empty statement, not meaning that much more than saying "God Bless You" when someone sneezes! If people REALLY appreciated our service they would be writing their Senators and Representatives about better VA treatment and cost-of-living allowance for retired Service Members. People love to say thank you, but rarely take the effort to SHOW it!

Not a bit. For a Vietnam era vet to be thanked is a real treat.

After hearing for so so many many years 30+ the words, oh you were in the service. Your a special kind of dumbass arent you, or you volunteered to be a dumbass didnt you, sometimes you have to be the stupidest M@#$er F&$%er I have ever met....this followed by the words from that person(s)... (many more than just 40 or 50 who told me this).... I would never volunteer to be in the military, and if they did have a draft I would be gone to Canada. So yes I am very thankful to hear the words thank you for your service. Thats my 2 cents worth.

It really doesn't bother me because I hardly hear it. When I do I really don't know how to respond because I only did what I think every American should want to do and besides that I only served I never paid the ultimate price so many Service Men/Women have.

It does bother me only cause I never know how to respond. We all had different reasons for joining.

It doesn't bother me at all when someone tells me "Thank you for your service" and as a matter of fact I don't see why it would be a question in regards to vets. Once an individual has served their first day they have served and then are open to the saying. So I must say I am a little confused at the actual idea of the post, but I do not intend any disrespect by that. I was told "Thank you for your service" by Al Roker at the airport the day I arrived for BCT and I am still told the same thing to this day. The only difficulties I encounter when an individual approaches me or in conversation tell me this is my response. I usually respond with a thank you back, in the idea that it is just nice to be respected and recognized for something I did. I do also try to make it a point to acknowledge other vets and thank them for their service because it wasn't a job that I did alone or anyone else at that matter. This is just my insight on the topic of thanking or being thanked for service.

I've always felt weird when people used to say that to me. But considering what our brothers and sisters in arms had to endure in the past, I feel honored to be recognized. I just retired last July but I have a lot of friends that went to Vietnam and I hear their stories of how they were treated. Anyways when someone tells me "thank you for your service", I reply with "no, thank you for your support." Im proud of my time in the Marine Corps.