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Thing is, brother Sarge, I didn't serve. I was a "draft-tweener" born in 1958. Still, I knew enough SE Asia heroes to understand their specific sacrifice. Folks like Kinzer look at flying to Hong Kong for 2 weeks as their sacrifice. Hillary sees her (faux) dodging of snipper fire as a sacrifice. They have NO CLUE what our soldiers ^sacrificed^. It was more than missed births, more than missed birthdays, more than unattended parent funerals (those are what the journalists appear to consider sacrifices!). Here's sacrifice no-one talks of but is real: Walking into a rice paddy and freezing after hearing what sounds like the click of a mine under your foot (older brother of my best friend in High School)...or was it just a twig? Clearing a collection of huts (AKA: Viet Village) and facing down a VC using his wife as a war-shield (another acquaintance). He convinced the opposing soldier to surrender, being lucky enough to have learned the proper phrases in French-Viet. There are, literally, thousands of anecdotes available for these so-called-journalists to access, yet they choose to remain ignorant.