Posted on Apr 26, 2014
Feeling guilty when somebody thanks you for your service?
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Do you think it's wrong of me to feel bad when people tell me thank you for your service? I feel like I'm not doing anything for my country because I'm not risking my life being deployed or fighting. I go to work and sit around the motorpool and I don't want anyone thanking me for that. Does anyone else feel this way???
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As others have said, they are thanking you for volunteering to fight for our country if the need arises. So far, for you, it hasn't come to that. But if it does, you voluntarily decided to put yourself in harms way. 98-99% of the country hasn't done that, and you have.
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I've been stateside the last 14 years; these wars happened without my direct participation. Since I rarely work at a major installation, I probably get more sentiments of gratitude than most members.
I don't think of myself as undeserving, but there are others more in need of it than me.
If you ever feel the thanks you receive were for something someone else did, accept it as a proxy and then pay it forward.
I don't think of myself as undeserving, but there are others more in need of it than me.
If you ever feel the thanks you receive were for something someone else did, accept it as a proxy and then pay it forward.
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Don't feel bad for it wasn't for having a military invaders would run this country into oblivion.
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