[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.

[GingisK]

Oh, now I understand your viewpoint. Maybe this has to do with the 60s hippies now in TV-show roles. They were anti-war and anti-vet to the point of being very poisonous. They merely carried that into their careers, and it remains targeted at their own age group. It appears their hard feelings do not extend to the veterans of previous wars or even recent ones.

Hippy types can never be confused with deep thinkers.