Unpopular opinion: Most soldiers aren't heroes

This military worship is going way too far in this country. Most soldiers are just regular people who signed up to get ahead in life. I don't hate them, I just think it's ridiculous that everyone basically has to bow down in front of them and constantly call them heroes and shit.

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Quizzical · 46-50, M

We had a soldier here called Lee Rigby who got killed (in some very suspicious and unusual circumstances) who quite frankly was nothing more than mediocre, but upon his death you would have thought he was Captain America (Or Britain in this case) the way the media were portraying him...