DY- are you implying it is the soldiers’ fault that we need protection in the first place and therefore they don’t deserve a “groiser yasher koach” for risking their lives when giving us that very same protection?
No I am not. We need to try and separate the individuals who came into the bad situation from the institution which created the bad situation. (That’s hard to do, though.)
Yom Haatzmaut is about the institution which created the situation.