I think you are putting far too negative a spin on it. I'd say most people who are involved in a grand adventure ... are enjoying that adventure (or struggling through it as the case may be) while it is happening. The end of the adventure can sneak up on you, and you are left with this feeling of loss. I think what you see as entitlement or ego are people who are just stuck in that feeling of loss and trying to convince themselves that they were lucky to have had the opportunity.
I don't understand your connection between entitlement and "willingness to die for the country." I dare say if you were to spend a day in the shoes of a soldier in Iraq, you'd change your tune about "very good lifestyle."
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I guess what I’m saying is that to avoid regret, I think it better to focus on thankfulness for what you had, rather than mourn what you are losing.
I agree, but that can be hard to do. A lot of the people who have had adventurous lives have had to spend a lot of their lives training and preparing skills to even have that adventure. It is hard to give up once it is over.
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and it is us tax payers who foot the humongous bill for that excitement.
Are you Republican? LOL You do know that this is the FIRST war in US history that we have NOT had a special tax to support the war effort. Instead we just have a massive budget deficit. Have fun kids.
Chrome
"Recollect me darlin, raise me to your lips, two undernourished egos, four rotating hips"
