No one is stopping anyone from saying thanks, or anything else.

Here is how this thread was anonymously launched back in 1997:

"Hey, today is Veteran's Day in the US. Does anyone have a song in celebration of the dogface, leatherneck, flyboy or (what were sailors called)?"

Here is how it was refreshed this year by Genie:

"Well, this coming Monday is Veterans' Day/Remembrance Day, so here's a link to one of the most popular WWII songs,
I'll Be Seeing You , which was actually published about 10 years earlier but became a favorite in the early 1940s."

Hardly the stuff of veteran worship, it started out about songs, Mick. NOT about sayting thanks to or honoring YOU personally.

When Amos innocently responded to Genie's post with a playful word pun, the grim militarist zealots came down on him like a load of bricks.

Get over yourselves.