Yes, most on FR truly love our military.
One of my father’s close high school friends was in the Airborne. He jumped behind the lines in Normandy, into Holland and was trucked into the Bulge. Wife and I became very close friends with he and his wife when he was doing his Doctorate work. Wife and I were just finishing college.
He was one tough little guy. They lived in AK for many years, then retired back in Texas.
When his widow needed to move into a care home, we bought their house. Still live in it.
My grandmother’s only brother died at the Battle of the Bulge, age 19. So incomprehensible to think of those kinds of casualties now.... hundreds or thousands of men every battle.