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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Meh, I served with them and said it to them......I am good, thanks for watching out for my moral compass.
Where do you stand on the following:
Calling Brits #### Eaters
Mocking the US military for over specialization
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I don't do either, and I'm just commenting on a very common insult done to the French, usually done by American's who have little or no grasp on history and not to mention how they joined the war only after being attacked and then have the balls to mock the French and tell them how they saved their asses in WW2.
I think we've all been guilty at mocking the French, I am no different but many years ago I read a great article about how truly insulting that attitude and mocking really is and it really stuck.
We admire and make hero's out of our veterans in Canada, justifiably so, yet we are so ready to mock and make light of another nation's vets and their people who were unfortunately situated in 2 world wars next to one of the great war machines in history who rolled over all of Europe with near ease.
Fine if you genuinely believe they are cowards, surrender monkeys etc, but to me that is the height of an insult to anyone in uniform and just because WW2 is over 8 decades ago does not make the insult any less out of line. Its amazing how casually people make this joke, and call me the fun police for pointing this out but its high time people learned how insulting it is.