Those who volunteered to serve in the military or were drafted when that was how things were done.
Now such people are labeled losers and suckers and dismissed as not being smart enough to stay out of the military.
So something changed. Flipped. Switched. Admiring those who were "smart" enough to get out of serving their country in the military and insulting those who weren't as smart. This is where we (the "head" he and his cabal et al) are today. Setting standards of behavior that disgust dismay.
