I suspect political motivation from people who claim to have been conservative. How many people claim to be liberal? The modern concept of the "greatest generation" is based on a book by a disgraced "liberal" journalist, Tom Brokaw, who never served in the Military. I find it vaguely insulting and self serving but the notion of the Vietnam War draftee victimhood is well ingrained in pop culture. The loss of 6,000 Marines in a month on a stinking island that we could have bypassed in WW2 is part of the generation that we credit for greatness but a Thousand Military personnel killed in Bush's) Iraq to enforce U.N. sanctions and overthrow a dictator doesn't qualify because the political motivation is suspect.
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