Hey guys; this is an off-the-top-of my head idea about an advertisement expressing how the public sometimes perceives us. I have been a soldier for three years, and in that time I have personally experienced most of the sentiments below said out loud by complete strangers who noticed my uniform.
(The Scene opens in a coffee shop. A girl reacts to what the man across from him has just said):
Girl; Oh wow, so you are a Paramedic. Would that make you pro…car crash?
(A scene of a cloudy day by a street corner. An older man walks up to a fireman drinking a coffee.)
Man; I just think, hey, aren't you scared of dying for nothing at all?
(A scene of a young man standing in a bus talking to the driver.)
Boy: I just can’t talk to you right now, ‘cause your just repeating what they told you to say.
(A woman looks through her open door at a girl scout selling cookies at the other end.)
Woman: I'm sorry, but to me, you're just a symbol of everything I'm scared of right now.
(A Construction worker is waiting by a bus station. He briefly smiles at the woman who is staring at him and then looks away. The woman keeps staring at him with wide concerned eyes.)
Blank space followed by a voiceover.
"We don’t talk to most people like this…why the hell are we treating Canadian soldiers this way?"
(The next scene is of a guy talking to a female soldier in a coffee shop.)
Boy: So...you're the type of person that supports what we’re doing in Iraq?
Soldier: You mean, Afghanistan?
Boy: Right, but you have to be a certain type of person to support anything that has to do with…
(End)