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WanderingEng  ·  928 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ‘Never Forget’ Is Breaking America

It's sort of the same thing, and I don't see it often anymore, but "Support The Troops" was weaponized to squash dissent with war. I was in the Army National Guard from 1998-2004. I never deployed, but not one person with a Support The Troops magnet (it was never a sticker) on their car cared one bit about me. Supporting the troops was meant to mean cheering as men and women are sent into war.