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Veterans

Aristus

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2. Almost every gathering of veterans I have ever attended has been a festering swamp of hate

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Sun Mar 21, 2021, 04:06 PM

Mar 2021

and resentment.

My wife encouraged me to join the veterans' support group at our (now former) church. I wanted to help veterans who may be suffering from depression or PTSD.

I lasted only a few meetings. They were just bitch-sessions for Vietnam Veterans who insisted "We coulda won it if the guvmint had let us!..."

I never revealed my political leanings, but they made it clear how much they hated liberals. I bugged out pretty quick...

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A Year Into Pandemic, Veterans Halls 'Barely Hanging' On [View all] douglas9 Mar 2021 OP

I personally will not miss them. Almost everyone I've been is a little pocket Twoflower Mar 2021 #1

Almost every gathering of veterans I have ever attended has been a festering swamp of hate Aristus Mar 2021 #2

I can only speak to the VFWs near my home in Tulsa. Runningdawg Mar 2021 #3

Wait...VFW's are "for profit"? ret5hd Mar 2021 #4

Who thinks its a good snowybirdie Mar 2021 #5