Anyone else think that since 9/11 police and military are automatically considereed "heroes"

[captain queeg]

5. I'm trying to think back that far

You are right, for awhile after Vietnam it was like you didn't talk about the military or something. What really pisses me about that is I think there was some element of arm chair generals upset we "lost" a war. Then the Gulf war came along. It could sort of be portrayed as a righteous war (if you didn't think about how long we'd been supporting Sadam before that) because we were helping to defeat an invader. I think us defeating Iraq so quickly certainly gave those sort of folks a shot to reinforce their ideas that America saves the world.

I don't remember the lift in public opinion extending to cops at the time though. What I remember from then pretty clearly was all the news shows blathering on and on about the 1000s of tanks and huge numbers of Republican Guards and it really had me thinking we were in for a long fight. The war was over in 100 hours and it seemed to me the world was suddenly collectively silent. I know I was stunned, I think many were.