Posted on May 13, 2018
"Thank You For Your Service" - What does that phrase really mean?
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Cpl Scott McCarroll I have had other veterans tell me thank you after I have thanked them. Sorta brotherly gesture on from both people. I really appreciate it when it comes from another veteran.
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It really depends on who's saying it and how it's presented, some of the time it feels like virtue signaling:
Thank you for signing a blank check payable to the sum of up to and including your life,
because I was unwilling or incapable of doing the same.
Thank you for filing your last will and testament as early as 18 years of age,
because I was unwilling or incapable of doing the same.
Thank you for watching our brothers and our sisters and our fathers and our mothers backs,
because I was unwilling or incapable of doing the same.
Thank you for sacrificing your time away from your family and friends,
because I was unwilling or incapable of making the same sacrifice.
Thank you for being a patriot.
Thank you for not being selfish.
Thank you for signing a blank check payable to the sum of up to and including your life,
because I was unwilling or incapable of doing the same.
Thank you for filing your last will and testament as early as 18 years of age,
because I was unwilling or incapable of doing the same.
Thank you for watching our brothers and our sisters and our fathers and our mothers backs,
because I was unwilling or incapable of doing the same.
Thank you for sacrificing your time away from your family and friends,
because I was unwilling or incapable of making the same sacrifice.
Thank you for being a patriot.
Thank you for not being selfish.
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Cpl Scott McCarroll
Cpl (Join to see) needed to hear that. That's pretty much what I feel every time I hear it. I get a knot in my stomach and say"Your Welcome" all the while wondering if their parents were the ones who spit on me, called me a host of things that I wouldn't say to my worse enemies.
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SPC Woody Bullard
Outstanding comment CPL Sain which sums up what many of us are thinking when we
hear those words. Then again I never heard those words when I returned to the states
in 1971 so it's strange to hear the words in 2018.
hear those words. Then again I never heard those words when I returned to the states
in 1971 so it's strange to hear the words in 2018.
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PVT Mark Brown
Cpl (Join to see) Cpl Scott McCarroll I have much to say on this issue since I came home to the "world" in 1970 and it was many years before I heard anything even remotely close to "Welcome Home" or "Thank you for your service." These days I hear the Thank You rhetoric and usually respond, "Are you a veteran." Probably 90% or more of the folks just say "No." Point made. But Welcome Home and Thank US for OUR service.
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I've often wondered about that...he usage seems to have been a comparatively recent advent, from what I can tell, of the instances I've heard it...just a thought, honest, hough if any of you have noticed anything similar, I'd obv be most interested, certainly, many thanks....
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PVT Mark Brown
Capt Daniel Goodman Please tell me more, I am interested and I think I know where you are going with this. Cpl Scott McCarroll
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