No matter how endlessly the paper hats get others to praise their bravery and modestly deny it, not one of the endless number I have met ever said that he had anything to do with the OUTCOME of the conflict he was part of.

Someone who walks around with a paper hat saying World War II Veteran is saying that he fought in a war whose only real result was turning one third of the human race over to the Communists.

To repeat, this is true of ALL paper hats. Korea ended up exactly where it started, Vietnam was lost as soon as the left turned to back their fellow Marxists. Vietnam was a replay of World War II, because it was decided at the desks of leftists.

And so on.

Even the old text on world military history at West Point made it a major point that one side is defeated when it DECIDES it is defeated. All the slaughters and artillery and medals are devoted to the same thing other propaganda is aimed at: CONVINCING.

All real wars are decided before the first shot is fired.

Paper hats are concerned only about themselves, how brave they were and how they can‘t be cowards because the government said so. But not ONE of the paper hats claims he had anything to do with historical, human RESULTS.,

Paper hats are useful — to those who know how to use them — as hostages. So Hitler was really really bad and Comrade Stalin had his points, if you don’t agree you are condemning all those brave men and women who fought against Hitler, and, incidentally, as allies of Stalin.

But when it comes to the real war, it is fought here, in convincing people.

No ten thousand medal winners even claim to have the effect that well-placed and disciplined words have on the real world