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Rapid Response 47 Honors Fallen Soldiers While Critics Clash Over War Rhetoric
The official Rapid Response 47 account offers a heartfelt tribute toward American soldiers who fought in historic battles, emphasizing...
Somewhat wrathful, another respondent linked the tribute back to current events and blasted U.S.-led bombings in Kharkiv, before inching his way into sarcasm by stating that “you gave him a reason to strike you” as if that was some shoddy excuse for civilian deaths. The vehement rebuttals began the realization that, for many, historical military service means an unsolved and very personal political grievance pertaining to today’s events, which is not being tackled as a separate issue for reflection. The whole thread acts as a showcase, that is to say, a distilled view of how discourse on patriotism and military service plays out in the public sphere: a tug-of-war between reverence and resentment; a shuttling away from solemn remembrance towards contemporary score-setting.
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