> Soldiers and veterans are not privileged. Some people think males are automatically privileged, and veterans (especially back then) are and were overwhelming

> Soldiers and veterans are not privileged. Some people think males are automatically privileged, and veterans (especially back then) are and were overwhelmingly male. I think that's a misunderstanding of the concept (that is, an idea that applies to a group does not automatically apply to every individual in that group) but there you have it.