I save all my admiration for those guys - particularly the platoon commanders, squad leaders, company commanders, etc. that picked the small shrapnel out themselves, applied the first aid cream, and stayed with their men. I admire the F-4 and A-4 drivers that got down on the deck and took hits for us. I admire the medevac pilots that flew to us no matter what to get the wounded out.
I don't waste my time trying to build up George or John.
Does that apply to you, personally? I had a draft number in the high 300s and still signed on. That does not mean I looked down on the people who went Guard instead.
The only people I looked down on, then and now, are the John Kerry's who spit on those of us defending their sorry a$$es.
You are pretty close to claiming moral equivalence between George Bush and Hanoi John. Ain't no way.
Do you also admire people like my cousin who joined the Navy to avoid the draft? Would it help to know that he became a corpsman in the Navy? Would it help to know that he had no idea that all of the Marines fighting in Viet Nam relied on Navy corpsmen? Would it help to know that when he did find out, he served in Viet Nam for two weeks shy of six months when he was severely wounded by a mine himself while coming to the aid of an injured Marine?
Many end up in unexpected places, even during wars. There were plenty of good men during that era who served in Korea, Germany, etc. prepared to fight off the Russians, but were never ordered to Viet Nam.