Fuck every "Vietnam Veteran" (excepting the Vietnamese)

The injection of “Vietnam Veterans” into the presidential political year hype is just crap.  Henceforth, anyone who identifies him or herself as a “Vietnam Veteran” ( or with any similar group equatable with a subset of such, such as “Swift Boat” or “Tunnel  Rat” or “Last Drafted” veterans, etc.) publicly earns my instant disdain.  Hell, I’m a veteran myself but with all this “Vietnam”-like sign-hanging going about I feel the need to distance myself by qualifying my role as a “non-Vietnam veteran”.  Why can’t all who merit just refer to themselves as “veterans”  and, if they  wish, concern themselves with “veteran affairs” of the whole and securing “veteran benefits” for all?  I’m half tempted to start a group called “Veterans against ‘Vietnam Veterans’”  heh.  Except I think I’d earn the mistaken wrath of the only true Vietnam Veterans—the North and South Vietnamese who fought as soldiers.  Hell, if the North Vietnamese had invaded the United States and lost its war, I’d be truly offended if they went around calling themselves “U.S. Veterans” or “U.S. War Veterans”.  Fuck you.  You lost.  Don’t you dare call yourself a “U.S. Veteran” or we’ll come over and kick your ass again in your own country and make you a "Vietnam Veteran" as, by rights, you’ve always been.  If you win a war, there’s an understandable temptation to drape yourself, cloak yourself in the symbolic booty and terminology of the defeated country/force.  Hence, Wellington, after kicking Napoleon’s ass, was observed to assume some of the peculiarly megalomaniac qualities vis-à-vis behavior and decorum of Napoleon himself.    And some African warriors were renowned for eating the hearts of their dead enemy in a quest to embody their demonstrated bravery and heroics.  Soldiers tend to play giddily at being the enemy they've just defeated.  But if you lose the war, dammit, let go.   Vietnam, as a conflict, was lost.  And it was a stupid conflict, all told.  If anything, the “Vietnam Veterans” ought to refer to themselves, if they’ve the need for special partitioning and can’t just buy into being a 'plain old vet’, as “Stupid Conflict Veterans”.  Not to imply that they were stupid or less than honorable in their conduct, but merely that the conflict, if it were to be considered as a class of firework, would be a ‘dud’ : mal-conceived, and/or mal-constructed and/or mal-executed by the manufacturer (fucked-up politicians).