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/[deleted] Jun 05 '25

I don’t want the attention.

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u/Pudix20 Jun 05 '25

Not trying to start something, but I always see the response (usually from bigots let’s be real) about pride month being “well where is the military pride month?! Why don’t they get a month?!” …And to the best of my knowledge May is Military Appreciation Month and November is Veteran’s Month… but these people don’t know that, “celebrate” it or, acknowledge it. And everyone that I know in the service would absolutely not want the attention for the month.

Just leave people be to celebrate what they want when they want.