[GingisK]

To a large degree, you are right. There are a few exceptions like:

We Were Soldiers
Good Morning, Vietnam
Operation Dumbo Drop
Air America
Faith of My Fathers
Rescue Dawn

[ansel12]

My interest was in TV, but those movies you listed aren’t even about civilian characters whose character is labeled as a distant Vietnam War veteran. they are war movies.

Archie Bunker was identified as a WWII veteran, a lovable character, Ward Cleaver, Beaver’s dad was a WWII vet, Andy Griffith’s Andy Taylor, was a WWII vet, The Skipper on Gilligan’s island WWII, and in modern shows I have seen lovable sit-com characters who could be Korean War vets such as Frasier’s dad.

They even make comedies of the other wars, McHale’s navy, MASH.