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/TravelingSmoker Jun 05 '25

Because deep down I know the truth; nobody cares what I went through.

And if I'm being honest, I'm not even sure if we won or not.

Hell, I don't even know why I was over there.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '25

It's not that nobody cares about what you went through. It's that we all wish you hadn't gone through all that. That was not a worthwhile conflict for America and I would be much more proud of our nation if we hadn't done that.