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I have had some similar thoughts lately. Yes it takes balls to join the military knowing you may not be alive at the end of the commitment you signed up for as a result of your commitment but... Yeah I do have a hard time believing that military people should be given such deference and reverence simply because they are in the military. As "unpatriotic" as it is for me to say this many if not most of the military people I have dealt with in the last few years are incapable of thinking for themselves. Many, (honestly I would say 2/3) of the military people are the uneducated, unmotivated people you speak of. No I would not be able to make the commitment it takes to join the military but I do not think I should automatically bow down for someone just because they are in the military, nor do I think they should be given special accommodation on account of their service. I think that this country would still be just as free with a military a fraction of the size of the one we have now, if only we focused on self defense and not nation building and global peacekeeping so I don't buy into the whole argument that we have to thank/kiss ass of every military person for giving us freedom. I treat military people the same as I would treat anybody else on initially meeting them.
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