Young veterans daily nightmare
Every time I go to rent an apartment and tell them I'm a veteran, when they ask about my income, they always ask me the same awkward question: "So young?" Do civilians think veterans are just old people? Do civilians think that people who go to war are old? In Vietnam, you weren't even 18 and you were already drafted to go to the front. It happened to me today, and this time I got angry and said, "Yes, I'm young, but I've seen and experienced things that you, at 50, haven't." She stayed quiet and didn't say anything to me again.