Originally Posted by
Genadius
I agree with you, but it is laughable to you. To an average Afghani/Iraqi individual with knowledge of what the Nazis did, would it be laughable?
If anything, you should be praising teachers, police officers, doctors, medics and nurses a lot more than you do. Granted, I have a police officer, a nurse, a teacher and an army officer in my immediate family, so I could be a bit biased. (my cousin used to date a firefighter, so for a while we had the whole set.)
I find every single one of those institutions, especially teachers and nurses, a lot more honourable and praise-worthy than any single combat role. Especially in the UK, with the NHS being in the state that it is, nurses and doctors that continue working on it should receive a lot more praise than soldiers, same with police officers. I honestly can't understand how anyone, including military veterans who have seen actual combat, would argue that a soldier is any more honourable than any of the above, but I'm not American.