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Same thing, different war.
If you look at the Gettysburg Civil War reunions, particularly the final one in 1938, and cross check the names on the photos, almost none of the geriatric gentlemen who showed up were even claiming to have been in a unit that was there during the battle.
Most of them do not appear to have been in the official rolls of either army.
Vietnam vets are now 52 to 85 years old. I see homeless and panhandlers as young as 40 claiming the be VN vets.
The shocking thing is that given public sentiment during the war, that so many who were not even there now claim to be vets.
Those who stayed at home safe in their beds now try to steal the honor of those who paid the price.
As it always has been.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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