What's this "warrior" stuff?

[HighFired49]

36. Thank you for posting this

Reminds me of, and was almost exactly my dad's story. Army Air corp, Berlin Airlift, and Korea, and Viet Nam in the USAF.

He never talked about his service unless he was asked about it directly. Never did I hear the word "warrior" from him.
We also lived on military bases, and nearly everyone treated their service as just a job, but one that they were proud and honored to do.
Never did we hear much bragging about anyone's dad or mom, as we all knew that even they were outranked by someone, and that wasn't the point of military service, anyway.

Not long before he died, I was helping him organize some stuff, and came across a box of his medals. All I had ever seen were the bars on his uniform, and he told me that those were just "indications of jobs he had done while in service." No brag about being really good, outstanding, or a "warrior". Later, after he died, I looked up those "indicators" of his service, and he was a pretty outstanding Airman.

I cringe at the idea of these creeps being anywhere near our service people, much less in command of them. Makes we want to weep.