Filmmaker: You can't praise the military while bashing my generation

I am 55 and of a difference generation. You make great points and I not only applaud your efforts but those of your generation. I Al's believe and promote a thought of something greater than myself, that I hope will help change the way we look at ourselves I have bought and given out T-shirts with a simple phase, "ONE RACE...HUMAN". And what I find most uplifting is that your generation promotes that vary idea. I do place a lot of responsibility on your generation, and that is to help fix the worlds problems with a new perspective that your generation has accepted. I fine great comfort in what your generation has accomplished thus far and feel confident in this countries and the worlds future.

And I love the feedback that was given to the article.

Paul Reecer · Daleville, Alabama
I have nothing but the highest level of respect for the millennials that have been shouldering the load. Not just in the military but the ones working hard at jobs, studying hard at schools. Many are young men and women of the highest caliber. That said with so many stealing the spotlight doing everything they can to either cry themselves into their safe place or act out like the very fascists they claim to be protesting it is giving the entire generation a black eye. I hold nothing but contempt and pity for those individuals. With such stark contrasts within the generation I fully disagree with Mr. Roessner. I can fully respect the military while bashing the elitists, clueless, spoiled, crybaby element of the millennial generation that has turned the word millennial into an insult.

Jay White · Beloit, Ohio
Its not just one generation making the military successful, it is several generations working in unison.
(What followed this comment is disappointing.)
Ron Blaze - I think you missed the point. Iraq and Afghan was 2001-today and that means the bulk of the fighting force was young. IE LCpl's, PFCs, SPCs, etc... I had one CWO4 in my unit and he served in NAM in 2003.
Ron Blaze - Even most Company grade officers were all millennials.
Mah Than · Bremerton, Washington - Ron, indeed. I signed up 1 year before 9/11. So basically my entire career was "during wartime". In that regard, people about my age and younger have a very unique experience. Mine is slightly different because, unlike people 1 yr after me, I had no idea what I was getting into. (Clarification: that doesn't make me "better" or anything. I would add that those who signed up in 2003 probably had no idea they'd still be deploying to war 14 years later.)

Buzz Adams · UCLA
Well there are some people, a tiny percentage, that have joined the military in the last 20 years and fought in these wars. They don't in my opinion represent these generations they stand apart from them. As Teddy Roosevelt said “For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know”. Roessner has perhaps tasted that flavor. Most of his generation have not.

Vic Moss · Las Vegas, Nevada
Millennials who join the military are head and shoulders above their generational peers who don't, in both character and capabilities. Considering that only 25% of Americans between 18 and 25 can meet military standards to join, is there really any question about that? The ones who join are the best and the brightest of their generation, bar none. Most of the millennials I talk to on the base, where I work, agree with the assessment that most millennials are lazy, coddled, and feel entitled, and they have the same derision for those people that us older vets have.