> members of the military consider anyone who volunteers for military service and does their time to be a veteran. If you take the oath, go where you're sent,

> members of the military consider anyone who volunteers for military service and does their time to be a veteran. If you take the oath, go where you're sent, and do as you're ordered (within the law and morality), that's all that can be asked. Some find themselves having to do it with people shooting at them or trying to blow them up, like my dad and some of my uncles; others are more fortunate, like numerous other family members, including me. All are veterans. (And that goes for draftees too, although it's been 50 years since the U.S. has had a draft.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/10/22/those-who-fight-our-wars-dont-write-blank-checks-to-america-the-soldiers-slain-in-niger-knew-that/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/10/22...