Jill Stein: 'I would not have assassinated' bin Laden

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159. Veterans, including military retirees, as well as current servicemen and women have no

difficulty understanding the distinction between service during war (which for example results certain benefits regardless of where your service occurs) and service during a campaign or expedition which attaches such credit only when deployed to the relevant theater of operations.

If you really are an excellent, or even just a good attorney who has researched the issue, you likely would know that award of the purple heart does not require the injury or death to occur during wartime. And since 28 March 1973, qualifying service includes assignment outside the U.S. as part of a peacekeeping force.

If you want to convince the administration that all the time we spent in service but not assigned during a named campaign or expedition should be re-characterized as wartime service, I'd welcome it. But it's lip service to claim the distinctions are not there.