ekurburski, I'd love to share 'war stories' with you sometime (privately, of course). I'm very active in local veterans groups, especially homeless vets. I'm very concerned about the astronomical suicide rate among veterans, especially the younger guys involved in recent tours. That's another thing that irks me, old men who never served a day, in fact, using wealth and power to avoid the draft, but now full of bluster and braggadocio, trying to portray this 'tough guy' image ("I've got a bigger button") who find it oh so easy to send young kids over to die on foreign soil and then fail to provide adequate mental health care for them when they return home. Of course this last part (mental health care) predates Trump but needs to be addressed in the most urgent manner. I hope we can at least agree on that.

chas