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The ongoing Gen X conversation is interesting because those of us who were in high school in the early 90& #39;s got that first hard-core recruiting pitch from the military. It coincided with increasing college costs (which Black Boomer parents largely couldn& #39;t cover) & a recession
And if you were a younger grad with minimal interest in immediately going to college & limited resources (I was a 16 year old high school grad) your options were service industry, jail or military. Gen X vets largely lack that hyper patriotic narrative about service as a result
I honestly don& #39;t care if you stand, sit, kneel, bow or burn a flag. I am in that window where it was never peddled as being something to think about outside of revelry & funerals. We made it underwear & bikinis & blankets. But even that was for the 4th of July not year round.
So I am...put off I guess, bordering on offended by the way the flag is now fetishized. It& #39;s distasteful at best because nothing I was taught said I served under to prevent criticism of it. We got a pretty hard Constitution/Bill of Rights push that hindered the adoration
