In an effort to correct the awful homecoming that Vietnam vets received, I think we have gone overboard with our reverence for folks in the military. Not everyone who wears a uniform wears it honorably, and we have seen solid, recent evidence of that with Perry (and Mastriano). I can’t imagine that Perry would have gotten away with his earlier fraud AND risen through the ranks in the Nat’l Guard had someone not stepped in somewhere along the line. It’s like bro code.