Your error is that “the PTSD rate” was ever acknowledged much less measured for combat troops during WWII or Korea. The veterans I knew from those wars suffered exactly as much or more than we did.
I’m angry because I’ve gone through a half century of insults, dismissive attitudes, and misinformation. I’m very proud of us and how we fought our war. And really sick of the characatures of us in the media and movies.
Actually they did estimates, remember PTSD has been acknowledged under various names for a long time. But even low ball estimates for Viet Nam vets (from the 70s) are 15% compared to the 9% estimates for previous wars. It’s a simple fact, veterans who fought in unpopular war without the full backing of the government and people come back a bit more messed up than those who had support. Which makes perfectly good sense, being in the foxhole knowing your country is behind you has got to be a vastly different experience than being in the foxhole knowing your country doesn’t give a $%^&.
Problem is you’re seeing insults where they don’t exist. DH and AN do NOT insult you and other VN vets, they simply don’t. It’s not in the content, it’s not in discussions the makers of the films have had about the movies. There are movies that do, but not those. It’s simply not there.