Ronald Reagan was a pre war cavalry officer in the Army Reserve. He was commissioned in the Air Corps when the war started and the Army told him to make training movies. The Army does stuff like that, they are called orders. Reagan never claimed to be on the beach at Iwo Jima or Omaha Beach.
George W. Bush joined the Texas National Guard and flew the F-104 (called the flying coffin) providing air defense against the Russians. He volunteered for Vietnam, but the Air Force didn’t need any F-104 drivers in that theater. Orders, you know. He never claimed to have served in Vietnam.
John Kerry joined the Navy and went to Vietnam. He submitted for himself 3 phony Purple Heart recommendations and a phony recommendation for a Silver Star (really it was a war crime) and used those 3 phony Purple Hearts to get reassigned after 3 months (normal tour in Navy, 13 Months). He claimed that he was a hero and he threw some pawn shop medals over the White House fence.
Bill Clinton wrote a heartfelt letter to Colonel Holmes (my PMS when I was an Army scholarship cadet at the University of Arkansas) and asked to be admitted to the ROTC when he reported to Law School. Holmes admitted him, but when Clinton drew a high lottery number, he wrote a nasty letter to COL Holmes (a survivor of the Bataan Death March), and went to Yale Law. Never served.
Senator Blumenthal enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves (very difficult in the Vietnam era unless you had a political connection). The Senator served the nation defending our borders against those pesky Canadians. Unfortunately, in a number of speeches he claimed or implied that he served in Vietnam rather than the correct statement that he was a Vietnam ERA veteran. The man is a liar.
Because Reagan was deaf in one ear due to a gun fired next to his ear in the shooting of a movie scene.
Well said about all, I’ll only add the man is a scumbag liar.