> a healthy country reveres its history and veterans. idk man, it's not even any of that. your average person who shits on veterans here tends to be older millenial or younger so 40s and down.  they justify it as what happened with blair later but ignore that they were at the time recruiting people from poor areas. hell, i ended up there because i fell out of school after being bullied on switching and it being in the next town. i did go back but the school wasn't setup for people like me at the time, education didn't change fast enough after new labour got in so i fell through the cracks. i was poor, my family were dirt fucking poor. so when i got outreach stuff from the prince's trust, yeah i took it, i got outreach and turned out i liked shooting. target shooting was great, i loved it, i was good at it and our local range was at the mod firing range. so, you're poor, you've got no options, everyone around you is telling you that you're a failure even though you're still performing academically and then 9/11 happens and you're being groomed into the military as a career, as an alternative. people shit on you for that, but they won't look at the socioeconomic causes for why those people signed up, look at what the tv and media were like at the time. saying that you want to resist foreign cultures ultimately has very little to do with people who want to claim moral superiority with hindsight. two of the best lads i served with were a paki and a black guy from brum. you think they were rich either? fuck no, they were dirt poor like i was.
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