Re: custombycrunch
Its not a matter of knowing more than those who have not served or who has say so, its a matter of having a different perspective. I served 11 years, and while I will never say I know more than those who never served, I will say that I have seen and done things that those who have never served have only read about. Serving in the military is an honorable thing that is not easy to do. You sacrifice a considerable amount, and your entire family is along for the ride. Those of you who have not served have wives who have never known what it is like to have their husband and father of their children deployed to some Godforsaken hellhole, never knowing when they will come back. I could go on and on, but if you can't understand that, than you truely have no empathy at all.
Having a hard time understanding that? I'll try a different tactic. My wife has Multiple Sclerosis. I have read every bit of information you can find, and I feel 99 percent confident only doctors know more about the condition than I do. That being said, I have only the vaguest idea what she is going through when she has a relapse, because I do not have the disease. I only observe what she endures.
Its the same thing. Unless you have been behind the rifle, you can only guess at what it is like. We went through a lot to serve our country, please do not impune that service with such crap as I have seen stated by some of the non-veterans on this site. Maybe Rodbolt could phrase things a bit differently, but I do not blame him for reacting the way he is.
I probably got bigger fish in my fish tank..........
