[halJordan]

Conflating killing and murder is an exceedingly naive understanding. It's one of those "babby's first philosophy"

And ultimately it's also one of those facially similar things actually smart people choose to conflate because it's rhetorically useful.

I dont know which one you are but congrats you got me.

[giraffe_lady]

You'll notice I'm not making the claim that they are the same, just that being called a murderer is a predictable outcome of joining the US military. It may be a naive belief but so is the expectation that your coworkers will be righteously fired for expressing it.

[NaanAGone]

"Just doing their job" isn't really a great reason to do anything. The term "veteran" treats "Country and honor" folks the same as "Duty" folks. And that's what the law gets to be, but if murder isn't one thing, then neither is any fact of military service.

If they didn't use the economically desperate and every aux member to sanitize their image, more people would be willing to call at least infantry participants, if not "Veterans" by other names.