Good for  Leonard Hecker for reminding  people about the difference between legitimate Veterans' groups and those that are just rip-offs (think of those melodramatic TV fundraising ads.)  While I'm not in the VFW as is Hecker, even as a peacetime Cold War Vet I hate to see con artists rip off vets. Hecker's  concern with Trump is well founded, for while he preaches respect for vets his own history here is shady.

During the Viet Nam war, young men who were draftable faced tough choices.  Many went and ended up in that brutal war; others strongly opposed the war and refused to go.  I  respect and  honor both those decent American groups.  
But a third faction   "patriotically" supported that endless  war but found ways to keep their own precious selves safe by endless deferments and questionable  methods.  One of those  jerks, a military school graduate,  is running for president.  And he even ridiculed a true Viet Nam hero.

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