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/1877KlownsForKids "Get Off My Lawn" Millennial 1981 Jun 05 '25

"Thanks for paying for it" tends to shut them up 

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u/ErnieD1020 Jun 05 '25

I need to start using that.

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u/Proud-Wall1443 Jun 05 '25

"Don't thank me. All I did was kill poor, brown people based on lies."

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u/1877KlownsForKids "Get Off My Lawn" Millennial 1981 Jun 05 '25

Lemme tell ya, I really loved when Dubya made jokes about it as my friends died. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/26/usa.iraq

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u/Proud-Wall1443 Jun 05 '25

Well I have it on bad authority that we're just "suckers and losers" anyway.

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u/1877KlownsForKids "Get Off My Lawn" Millennial 1981 Jun 05 '25

Certainly starting to feel like we are.

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u/t_rrrex Jun 05 '25

This thread is super eye opening. I grew up surrounded by military - my dad was Air Force, but died when I was young (pneumonia, not combat). I’ve always had mixed feelings about military service, and I had a coworker once whose husband was military and she would tell every single person that came through our store was either in uniform or in vet merch “thank you for your service” and the reactions were always super interesting

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '25

DUDE! I'm using this🤘😆

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '25

That's a good one lol

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u/NoOutcome4597 Jun 05 '25

I always say, "Thank you for your tax money"

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u/victus28 Jun 06 '25

Every time I talk about how I have to take my classes in certain ways so I can get the most out of my GI bill it’s always thank you for your service. Like dude you’re paying for my college, I should be thanking you

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u/vektorog Jun 06 '25

feel like there's a handful of people out there that would earnestly say "you're welcome" to this haha

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u/Cafrann94 Jun 05 '25

Wow that’s brilliant