all of this fawning on the troops (biden is particularly fulsome: (david gregory and others: look up 'fulsome.')) is a problem. ok if the war was unnecessary and ill-considered, in what sense is fighting it "serving your country." only if "serving" means doing what you're told. i've said it many times: it's no use not holding people individually responsible for what they actually kill for: in the approach that we have here heroes fighting in a terrible mistake, we just treat the people we're calling 'heroes' as idiots or objects. if the war is wrong, then what each of the people who are doing it is doing is wrong.