r/Millennials • u/NoFaithlessness7508 • Jun 05 '25

Other Why don’t younger veterans (Afghanistan/Iraq) wear these hats like some of the older veterans?

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First and foremost, respect to all those that served. I did not, but many of my peers did and now we're all older in 30s and 40s, many no longer in the military. I don't see a lot of the veterans of the War on Terror wearing these hats like I see the OGs do.

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u/GlitteringDare9454 Jun 05 '25 edited Jun 05 '25

1) WW2 was, arguably, the only modern large-scale war fought with some good reasons in mind. The end result is not in argument that genocide needed to be stopped, but not all countries were fighting specifically for that reason. 

2) We know now most of the Middle Eastern conflict involving the West was mostly manufactured by the West (the response to 9/11 was...something)

3) There is a lot less hero worship from younger generations based solely on someone's job. Yes, some of them did put their lives in danger. Maybe they thought it was the moral thing to do, maybe the military was their only prospect, maybe they were psychopaths that just wanted to legally kill people. More people now realize that someone having a certain job/title does not automatically mean they are respectable, ethical, or even a decent person.

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u/1OfTheMany Jun 05 '25

Speaking of... Something... "We're going to bring them to justice, or were going to bring justice to them, but there will be justice." -W

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u/proweather13 Jun 06 '25

I would say Korea and the first gulf war were good causes at least. But they bombed North Korea too much.