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I certainly wouldn't deny that there's good reason for Veteran's Day writ large, I just think it's a really strange thing to be celebrating with kids this young. It's hard to get into the concept of a just war with 3-year-olds, let alone give a decent, age-appropriate answer to 'what do soldiers do now' ("try and help people" was the best I could do). But maybe my hackles are just raised from my last job, where I genuinely had a parent complain that "Paw Patrol" was fascist brainwashing. Also had a kid who watched footage of WWII bombings with his dad, and then unsurprisingly spent a lot of time air-raiding his classmates with pinecones. Somewhere in the middle is a reasonable stance, just not sure what it is myself.