Much like life’s other traps, young men and women usually sign up before they fully understood what the purpose of the military is nowadays, and how far we have strayed from national security into nation building and raping natural resources. And of course the recruiters don’t tell them that they will have to fight tooth and nail for their veterans benefits if they get injured. 

 Far beyond this even is a culture that supports these actions. We do so by putting all military service members into one bucket, call them all heroes or you're a bad person, and the cycle keeps on going. 

To me, it's just an expression of where we are at. And fuck yeah, I want to honor and respect the service members that are heroes.