Thanks for "getting it"
Thank You for serving our country now.
During the Vietnam war, a small group of paid (by the KGB) agitators and toadies on college campuses and in the media pushed the idea that protesting the war and slandering the Warriors who fought it was "fashionable". The Hollywood Left slavishly followed along in further making it "cool" to be a protestor or to avoid service. Obviously, even some vets, like Heinz-Kerry, got caught up in it. They damn near tore the country apart in the process, demolished a lot of what formerly made this country great, and seized control of an entire political party.
Twenty years later, it became "fashionable" to give the vets the respect and admiration that they always deserved. This came about because the AMERICAN PEOPLE made it so, not the "elites", who were first confused, and then marginalized by it. Reagan's two landslides were partial testimony to this.
The wolves learned, though. Now, they parrot the right words of praise, but they don't believe them any more now than they did then.
The hypocrisy would gag a maggot. The VFW's reaction to returning vets was only one symptom of the cancerous disease the Left tried to spread...they promoted the idea that VN Vets were somehow "less honorable" than their WWII counterparts, and (gasp!) might be ticking time bombs of PTSD waiting to go off.
Watch...mark my words, they'll try the same thing again with Terror War vets.