Right here:
"...I wanted combat experience."
For you to get combat experience, some other American veterans would have to become deceased veterans.
Walt
So now you condemn any and all members of the military that join in times of war? Is the only honorable service that of peactime enlistment? You impune the reputations of millions - many have rushed to join when their country needed them. Robert E. Lee wrote his sister stating "save in defence of my native state, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed, I hope I may never be called on to draw my sword." Which certainly is not construed to be a desire for others to die, only that he was prepared to serve.