He fought in World War II, Korea and early Vietnam, as did many others.
I hear you. I vacillated on replying, but felt it important. I am humbled even in the presence of my own boy (3-tour veteran), let alone my veteran elders & ancestors.
My big problem with this 'media circus' (well, besides not ostracizing CNN enough for this):
I don't see anyone identifying the 'contributor' of the CNN story and find that bothersome...
CNN apologizes for the unintended offense caused by an article from a contributor that was commissioned to be a humorous look at monumental architecture worldwide. Neither the piece that was commissioned nor the edits made by CNN were consistent with our standards.
...yet they published it anyway.
Google Cache conveniently has no cache of the page at the URL where a 'web-creeper' might find discover the contributor and neither does The Wayback Machine. I find that odd, particularly that even a Facebook posting that only linked to the story is now 'scrubbed' as well. It seems that internet censorship is alive & well, but to what purpose? To protect the contributor from deserved attention? The enemy is within and I am cynical as to the outcome.