Vet Hats and Morons..........love those "old retirees"

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

The hat of mine that gets the most comments reads thusly:

DYSFUNCTIONAL VETERAN
Leave Me Alone

[NKP_Vet]

“I got spit on a few times until I kicked the shit out of a spitter”.

I never got spit on, but I stayed in the Air Force for 20 more years after I came back. My favorite thing to do when someone ask he what I did in the military is to say if I told them I would have to kill them. Should see the looks on their face. I only do this with the young punks with purple hair.

[blam]

Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb? (One of Groucho’s favorites)

[rwa265]

Another one would be “Where was the Battle of New Orleans?”

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

In all fairness, for those under about 40, the Vietnam War is a big gap in their education. As are most other US wars. Schools discontinued teaching about them for the dual stupid reasons that “war isn’t history”, and that “if you teach children about war they will want to start a war.”

Some of the impressively ignorant and uneducated things students think they know about the Vietnam War:

1) It was the bloodiest war in American history (alternatively) in world history.

2) The US invaded Vietnam to conquer it.

3) The “Vietnamese” won the Tet Offensive. If you ask them “which Vietnamese?”, you will just get a blank stare, so it is probably meaningless to pursue it further.

4) The US president who “started the Vietnam War” was Richard Nixon.

[TheOldLady]

I had no idea that you were an orphan. God bless your Dad. He sounds like he was a good man as well.

[null and void]

Half an orphan, my mom is still very much alive...

[TheOldLady]

Half an orphan is “not” an orphan! It’s very nice that you still have your mother. God bless you both. :-)

[null and void]

Ah. It’s like being half pregnant. I never did fully get all finer details these familial interrelationships...

[richardtavor]

Isn’t that that the damn truth. I was a buck fifty back then, now 185...