Donation to the vets?
You mean aside from their taxpayer funded wages? For the job they CHOSE?
Realistically, most of your military were too dumb for a job in McDonalds and had to chose the Army.
Your worshipping of ex-soldiers is pathetic, they havnt even defended America ONCE since 1945.
It`s not worship, respect slips through open hands that say give. My Military, please tell me you are not one of those poor poor immigrants that run away from there war torn Country to my home then complain about where you left but didn`t have the balls to stay. People are not migrating to China, Brazil or Somalia, they come to America. You care to explain this mystery ? I don`t see why they can`t stand up to their big bad wolves.
We minded our own business in the past, then they sank the USS Main, led to treaties that were broken and eventually WWI. Well after that, the world should have learned, but one man in europe took it upon himself to create a perfect Nation and began taking over Europe. He did very well. He did so well with his war machine that he eventually entertained an ally. Still the USA stayed out and minded our own.
Then one day we were shoot`n at some food, and up from the ground came a bubbling rude...Jap that is, swarms of them. They had their way with the guys minding their own business.
From that day forward, if you wanna play, you`ll pay. Siting idle and waiting cost the US 450,000 lives, going on the offensive, has cost us so much less than all the conflicts from Nam to Libya and tomorrow.
"I don`t expect you to understand, but would like to welcome you to America. Why did you leave home again ?"