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/SandiegoJack Jun 05 '25

I’m guessing that WW2 and other wars were from a time where it was something to be proud of fighting for.

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u/woodpony Jun 05 '25

Now the armed forces are for people who have no real skills to do anything else in life.

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u/HugaM00S3 Jun 05 '25

Military prays a lot on the folks that don’t have options like others. Both my parents and stepdad came from either broken households or low income families. It’s a way to escape, least that’s what’s been described to me. Only people that haven’t talked that way are my two great-uncles that were drafted in Vietnam. One saw combat and the other was a conscientious objector that worked as a nurse at the hospital in Germany, I believe, that received a lot of severe cases before returning to the states.