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mars-ipan · 2 years ago

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i hate how people will always get mad at me when i complain abt the military as an institution and yell “respect the troops” and then when the 4th of july rolls around they are popping fireworks so fucking loud you’d think a fucking bomb just fell from the sky

#marzi speaks #no this year’s early fireworks have yet to start #and no i have not been phblicly trashing the military lately #but this still happens and it still pisses me off #esp bc like they think i don’t have any clue of what the army’s like #my dad is an army vet. he has told me many a story #almost all of them involve someone getting hurt and/or incredible amounts of inebriation #he told me he once witnessed an army buddy do a whip-it from the trash can. said buddy promptly passed out and pissed himself #he’s told me the story of the time he knocked out a guy with one punch. some skinhead-looking assholes were harrassing him + his buds #(who were fresh out of the army and as such had fresh army buzzcuts)#and one of them made a motion like he was gonna pull out a gun #so my dad cold-clocks him. and this guy’s buddy goes ‘i’m sorry i’m sorry we’re on shrooms i’m sorry about him please let us go’#my dad has told me of the time some disaster happened in kuwait- he thought it was an attack but it was an accident of some kind #things blew up. my dad got shrapnel in his hand. my dad passed out from pain the only time in his life #none of the army stories my dad has told me are things i would be envious of. including the funny ones #the ONLY thing i’m even a little jealous of is the fact that when he did night patrols in kuwait he saw jerboas in the sand and they’d chill #that is IT. and doing night watches sounds like ass. i can probably go to the zoo and befriend a jerboa that way. not worth it !#my dad has actively discouraged my brother and i from enlisting our whole lives. it is one of the few things we aren’t allowed to do #(which i’m fine with bc hell if i’m doing all that to myself they BREAK you there)#also since when was the military as an institution the same as every individual soldier. i hate the military because of what it DOES to them #i am doing far more to ‘respect the troops’ than your anti-homeless ‘ptsd-isn’t-real’ ass ever will. fuck right off and suck my dick #idk that shit irritates me so bad bc i know these motherfuckers don’t do shit to benefit their local vets. it’s hypocritical + performative #and it pisses me off so bad

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