Odd question to ask the day after Armistice Day. But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and bite.

Many western countries created a Tomb of the Unknown after WWI to honor the dead that never got counted or identified. This job is considered honorable because of the significance that it carries to the nation.

You gotta keep in mind that, back then, we didn’t have a standing army, it was a draft or nothing, so it was untrained boys that got called up and an entire nation that rallied behind them. (This is also the reason the NRA exists, to be a club that teaches citizens how to properly and safely use firearms, not the lobbying monstrosity it has become today)

Its only in recent times, especially the Bush eras, that the homefront carried on as if nothing was different while a war was on. That’s one reason they’ve been able to have forever wars, because it could fall into the backdrop of society behind Real World and the Kardashians so we would forget to give a fuck about what our troops were doing. (This is also why “Support the Troops” was more common 20 years ago, because it called back to a time when it meant something, even though we now know it means fuck all)

That wasnt how countries went to war back then. So because of the significance is why we allow that job to be considered honorable than most.

See, the thing is, this happens a lot. Some E-nothing corrects a flag officer and will get an extra cookie or spot promoted, but then for the rest of their contract they get fucked out of preferred orders, put on extra duty, or some other bullshit. I’ve seen it too many times. This dude is gunna get his.

The only positive is that the tomb guard is often a twilight tour, however, they’re constantly undermanned due to no one being able to or willing to go thru their hazing, I mean, training pipeline. So the dude already hates his life. This award means nothing to him.

Source, me. I used to work in ANC doing funerals and knew a few of them. Even went into their quarters under the tomb a few times, shit is its own tomb down there.

Don’t forget about the hospital system and its affiliates

My b. I didn’t pay attention to the name, I thought you were the goober that started this thread with “I didn’t vote.”

You think this is a new thought? Cause that’s what the primaries are for. But you didn’t vote, so idc about what mental gymnastics you need to do to justify your bullshit. Either do something real about it or get off your high horse and slug it out in the electorial season’s trenches with the rest of us.

It be more effective of an opinion if you voiced it at the ballot box instead of the soap box there bud.

You chose not to, so now you have to accept the consequences of that.

Casting you vote aside already tells us you don’t care what you have to say, so why should we?

Addition: Nice edit lol love the backpedaling.

No vote, no opinion.

Their polls closed the later than the rest (except HI), its a massive state, and the infrastructure isn’t the best. So it takes time. Also its a close race, so they want to be right when they call it.

This movie already did, for a lot of us!

Or have fallen ill to poor

Well I wasn’t planning on continuing the conversation/molehill past the initial comment…

Fair. However, everywhere in the US the service industry, military, and general phone etiquette (which is a dying thing) demands the standard colloquial terms of respect that are “sir and ma’am”.

A previous commenter mentioned that the societal obsession with youth is a problem. I would go further and say that it is a larger problem than how people attempt to show others respect.

As a southerner, sir and ma’am are used regardless of age. My little sister has always been ma’am. Its a respect thing. People that get bent put of shape take things too seriously

You sound like an ad

Also a blank for me, oh well.

Who?

I got $20 that says it’ll be the Houthies

Isn’t his brother the king?

That part tho

Spank it like a monkey in a mango tree