Geeze, this sounds like my dad. He's got Marine corps stickers on both cars. A sign hammered to the front of the deck. The hat. The denim jackets with patches and I don't know what all else.

He sat for 6 years on a base in Norfolk, Virginia. He got deployed once and even then he sat on a boat for 30 days and came back.

It has always irritated me that he pretends and postures when there are people who have had boots on the ground and those who have come back as Dignified Transfers through Dover AIr Force base.

I know because I volunteered at the USO there. I saw the caskets coming in.

I worked for the feds and had lots of friends that worked at the Pentagon. I saw the toll it took on those who were there in the deserts fighting. I went to Walter Reed (when it was still operating) with one and helped him get back home after eye surgery.

All the stickers in the world doesn't make you a hero. Neither does the posturing.