I understand, with the way the world is today soldiers are needed and thanked for for volunteering to fight for our country, but I just can't seem to understand why they're so respected and saluted.
I also understand that people have personal relations with them, or that they feel bad that they lost a leg during battle, but is it morally really their responsibility? Do they feel obligated to salute them because they gave their unasked for service for the country?
My personal opinion:
I don't care much about war, and I do feel safe having security. Although I can understand why we honor them, I don't understand why most feel the need to thank every literal soldier for their service and bow down as if they're going to get killed if they don't.
I don't care much that they kill people, but they DO kill people, they kill people also serving for their own country. Why praise them for that? I feel like if they're going to acknowledge them for anything it should be for the things they had to do in order to protect their country when they didn't want to do it. If I were to join the military I wouldn't care much if people from the outside saluted me without my ask, I'd feel a bit giddy and good of course but I wouldn't care that much. But of course who am I to say that.
Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding this entire thing. Maybe they're not saluting them for just protecting our country or them being a sacrifice. I'm not asking for an explanation, just your own thoughts, or if there's anyone in the military - how do you feel about people doing this?
