{"id":32343,"date":"2012-10-11T08:26:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T12:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32343"},"modified":"2012-10-11T08:26:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T12:26:36","slug":"jealous-much-nicole-frazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32343","title":{"rendered":"Jealous much, Nicole Frazier?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert sends us a link to the Rocky Mountain Collegian<\/a> and a piece written by Nicole Frazier who says she’s an English and Spanish major, but apparently, she doesn’t like that 10% discount that you guys get at Lowes and Home Depot;<\/p>\n

First off, I believe when businesses, such as Banana Republic, Lowe\u2019s, Apple and Disney World handout military discounts, they are doing two things. They are establishing an uncouth definition of what it means to serve this country and encouraging a hierarchy that discredits the work of other heroes in our country, treating military personnel better based on their willingness to volunteer.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t that I am appreciative<\/del> unappreciative (correction) of the risks they have taken. It\u2019s that I recognize that the military is not the only group of people serving this nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You’re right, Nichole, we’re not the only people who are serving this country, but if you were old enough to remember the post-Vietnam War era and if you could have seen how veterans of that war were treated like second class citizens, maybe you’d see how this discount thing makes up for that to some small measure. Veterans were ashamed to admit that they served because of mouthy little punks like you who demeaned them for their service to this country.<\/p>\n

I am advocating for reconstructing our definition of what it means to serve this country. I am thinking of the word \u2018serve\u2019 in the sense of yielding a service or product for others, not limiting it to just those who have enlisted in the military.<\/p>\n

I figure that if we were to think of it in those terms, we would discover that millions of people are serving their country; millions of Americans who are equally deserving of discounts as any soldier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How do you “reconstruct a definition”? A definition is what it is. There are indeed millions of people who serve the country and it’s citizens, but, how many of those you want to extend a discount, yank up their roots every two years like I did and move to some other part of the world, sometimes leaving their families behind and then spend a year or so getting shot at? Are you going to do that, Nichole. Of course you won’t.<\/p>\n

Personally, I believe that a collaboration of education, patience and an open mind is key to improving a lot of the world\u2019s problems. I think by glorifying the military profession with discounts is reiterating the long-held notion in this country that a strong military presence is the way to go about encouraging change. To put it more simply, encouraging a forceful approach over what I believe to be a stronger and powerful, and perhaps more peaceful one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go take that “collaboration of education, patience and an open mind” to Pakistan and start improving the lot of that part of the world, well, until they chop your head off or shoot you in the face. You’re known as a student, that’s because you’re still learning, that you don’t know everything yet. Even when you’re not a student any longer, you still won’t know how the world works until you’ve accomplished something. Most of our members of the military who are your age have already accomplished something. You’re far behind them, Nichole. <\/p>\n

By the way, your local merchants who give a student discount on their wares and services should really be questioning their practices when you haven’t done anything to deserve that which you would deny members of the military, given your conditions for deserving a discount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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