In a weird way.
You said, "Yeoman’s work there mnehring."
Did you know that a yeoman is by most common definition a freeman who must do the hard work on his own to run his own farm.
The Yeomen as a class are the ones who make up the militia, the armed citizenry. Not the paid professional military. When a YEOMAN goes to war, his family doesn't fly a yellow ribbon, they fly the stars and stripes.
You have a problem with a paid professional military?
Do Yeomen usually go to war as conscripts or volunteers in your mind?
Once they volunteer and are paid, are then not part of a paid professional military?
Evidence shows you know next to nothing about the military traditions of American families and are thus in a rather piss poor position to say what their acts do or do not symbolize.