r/comics Finessed Impropriety 15h ago

25 years ago today

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u/TheOnesWithin 15h ago

Did your father end up having to deploy?

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u/reddot_comic Finessed Impropriety 14h ago

Yes. He had 6 to 9 month deployments from 2001 until about 2007. The most I got to talk to him was about once a month in a phone call. When he was home it was for about 2-3 months at a time. It was really hard on our family but we had a great support group.

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u/Fair-Bus9686 14h ago

My friends father was also deployed quite a bit after 9/11. I know it was hard on her too. I feel for all the military families that were missing their family members 🫂

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u/DEMACIAAAAA 13h ago

I get it, but it's also important to remember the families of the orders of magnitude more people they killed. And to vote so it never happens again.

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u/Limp_Accountant_8697 12h ago edited 12h ago

This is the truth. Things can be two things and we should care for all humanity but also a little bit more for our own people's, however they choose to define that individually.

I am proud of my service. I am glad that I joined, did my time, deployed twice (got stoplosted😆🤬). Sadam was a maniac. Seriously terrifying. He was our fault/responsibility? But... We messed those people up and cause so much instability it is an order of magnitude more than anything the US has suffered stateside since Indian Removal. War is hell, its what countries do, but that was all our fault and it was based on fake reports that came directly from the administration.

This will come back to bite us. I love my country, but I'd hate the US too in there shoes; even if I hated my own leaders. There's enough hate to go around. That whole thing was a disaster, let me tell ya, its hard to give words to a father carrying his dead 8 year old who got shot by random Johny Soldier day 1 with an itchy finger, terror, and no discipline. He demands justice, you have no idea who drove down that street... Here is a ticket to take to central, just mark "family member" on the damage form.

Sewage, garbage, rubble, outright violence and gang/tribe sectors. Guilty as #$*. If this were China invading the US, you better be sure that every redneck to gangbanger would be lighting their asses up every chance we got.

Worlds crazy... humans been doing it forever, gross. Conflicts are constant, it sucks. um, go team USA? 🤔🤷

I'm tired boss

Least its not Russia. (Or Iraq.😬)

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u/FabulousVanilla9940 10h ago

Always appreciate a balanced take, thank you for your service and for having the awareness to recognize when wrong is wrong.