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		TurkishPoptart on Jan 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: War Is a Racket (1933) Why were they discriminated against after the war? In the US, former servicemen got the world handed to them on a silver platter.

Apocryphon on Jan 10, 2020 [–]

Not after the Vietnam War, so it seems like the near-veneration of veterans in the modern world didn't happen until fairly recently.

commandlinefan on Jan 10, 2020 | [–]

That matches my father’s experience - he said he had to leave Virginia because nobody was hiring former sailors after Vietnam.

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