Veterans hate war and think it's a waste

This is actually from the middle of last year, but all things considered I’m noting it at this time.

The “Long War” that began on September 11, 2001, added to veterans’ already-outsize role in the American narrative. Worship of military service has become an indispensable cog in every politician’s and corporation’s endearment strategy. But on the actual subject of war, almost no one in mainstream politics is actually listening to “the troops.”

That’s the main takeaway from the Pew Research Center’s latest rolling poll of U.S. veterans, published (July 2019), in which solid majorities of former troops said the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria were not worth fighting. The gaps between approval and disapproval were not even close to the poll’s 3.9 percent margin of error; barely a third of veterans considered any of those conflicts worthwhile: - The New Republic

The sacrifices wartime veterans (and their families) made, especially those who suffered long-term (physical and/or psychological) injury, and/or knew people who were killed, are beyond anything I can really understand. To expect all of them to accept that the wars weren’t worth it is not realistic, and I for one never get in anyone’s face about it.