One of my friends sent me the above vid, and I thought about his points. I always see that ads try to say that soldiers fight for our freedom everyday, like if they stopped shooting for a day, we'd be invaded. Like if they would stop launching airstrikes, we wouldn't be able to live happily. Like if we stopped sending young men and women to their deaths, we'd be enslaved by terrorists. They, IMO, don't fight for our freedom right now. This fight is a useless one. It is one the Soviets tried and failed, and is one we will also fail to do. We should stop thinking that we're freeing people or saving them by putting their country into more of a shit hole than what they started out as. One of my distant cousins joined the military, he seemed like he was brainwashed by some recruiter, saying his college will be payed for, he'll see new places, have an adventure, make life long friends. He used to be funny and out going. But when he came back and we visited him, he wasn't the same. Him and a bunch of his buddies from high school went with him, some of them are dead and most of them were severly maimed. Lucky for him onlly was shot 5 times and had two toes blown clean off. I KNOW he's suffering from PTSD, but he has to much pride in him to admit to it. He finished his college since then, but I don't see much of him anymore. His service is still highly respected by me, despite the feelings I have towards war violence, but I think we need to fight wars the REALLY matter. The fights we fight now don't. Stopping Hitler from killing anymore millions of people was "the fight for freedom". But we don't have wars like this anymore. We should stop glorifying war unless the cause is worth the death and suffering.