[reformedliberal]

I understand and I don't denigrate any service, since one never knows what will happen anywhere/anytime.Training alone is dangerous, IMO.

However, I have been having some running battles w/people who use their military service in peacetime to one-up anyone else on the subject of Kerry's *service*.The VN vets seem to recognize Kerry's *type*.

I am an older woman and these are men young enough to be my sons and the degree of invective that comes out when these topics are discussed are rather shocking. In my experience, military service usually teaches respect and civility, at least in public, to women and to seniors.

I never have resorted to ad hominum w/these people and have provided MSM sources, only to be told off in expletives and then informed that they served and know better than anyone.

[Dan(9698)]

>>>...then informed that they served and know better than anyone.

Many who claim to have served, did not.

I was Army 58 to 61. In Germany 2 years.

I knew some who were in the Army who were phonies. Just because you may have been in the service does not make you smarter or better. You had to learn something while there.