Why do we buy into the worship of the military?

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103. Worship of soldiers go in cycles.

Returning WWI soldiers were honored because that was the first time our country had engaged internationally. WWII soldiers were worshipped because they had won a battle against a real-life evil. Korean War soldiers came home to less acclaim because of the standoff result of the war and more importantly, because the "enemy" was not well defined like in WWII. Vietnam soldiers came home to disrespect because of the bad acts some of them did, occasionally caught by cameras, in other cases highlighted in exhaustive investigations and breakdown of attempted coverups such as in the cases of massacres of unarmed civilians, also because of the lying of politicians and military brass.

Although many Navy Seals are likely glad to see Gallagher walk free, the way that case was handled is damaging to all Special Forces because it now causes the general public to question whether covert soldiers act ethically in all cases, regardless of the stress they are under, that feeling from the public has caused the pendulum to start swinging back away from troops. The best thing that Seals can hope for in that Gallagher simply disappear from public view, because if he stays in the public eye, his actions will continue to be analyzed and I don't think that ends well for active duty troops.