Reply #32: Some vets hate other vets

[Alcibiades]

My Dad's a Vietnam vet, and there's a tremendous post hoc pissing contest about who got the worst of it. All those homeless vets are malingerers, or bums pretending to be vets after the fashion of Eddie Murphy in Trading Places.

Oh, and the ones who are not malingerers are drug addicts, which is their fault, of course.

The same guy thinks all government is evil and resents the hell out of taxes but does not mind getting checks from the government and free health care for life because "I earned it." How it is that the government is evil and yet the Army is somehow very, very good, or how government is evil yet our constitution and democracy are very, very good is never handled by the part of his brain that handles logical thought (95% of which has been taken over by the part of his brain responsible for playing craps and horse racing),

Dad's had the chance to vote for Vietnam vets twice for President now, and he went Republican both times. I think he'll stay home rather than vote for McCain.