So what makes these vets service more relevant and their opinions more valid than the scores of vets who sit on the right side of the aisle???
There are military veterans who profess to be Democrats.
Some, like Jack Murtha, were in relatively well-isolated positions nowhere near the enemy. Others, like Tammy Duckworth, or Max Cleland, were severely wounded, and trade upon their veteran status to promote their own political careers. Still others, like John F. Kerry, overly embellish their military service, then express righteous anger at what they thought were “excesses” of the military and the Administrations that sent men to fight and die in a war called for by old men.
Most veterans, who also claim to be Democrat, or at least anti-Republican, just do not have that strong a portfolio when it comes to relevant exposure to enemy fire, like Al Gore, son of a prominent Democrat politician, who returned to become a Democrat politician in his own right.
You cannot be a sincere patriotic American and a Democrat both. At least, if you expect to go anywhere at all within the Democrat party. Just look at the spectacular resume of Jim Webb, seeking the nomination to be the candidate for President on the Democrat ticket in 2016.
He barely got onto the stage.