Bravo Chris Hayes !!!!

[loyalsister]

52. it's a good academic discussion

But, it is not worth starting a controversy among people who are naturally offended because of their personal relationships with, status as veterans, or even their personal construct of patriotism.

The concrete emotion that comes with what happens in the actual theater of war can not be fully understood by all parties- particularly non participants. The veterans I have talked with speak of very specific personal feelings and experiences. It is extremely painful for most of them.
Classifying veterans as heroes is a way we have found to help validate participants who have lived through terrible experiences. For some, it comes in spite of what they have lived through. I think that it is worth remembering that someone else was not there involuntarily because of them.

Our objections are worthy of debate, but not in a context that devalues or hurts the people who understand this at an entirely different, very painful level.