People have lost their minds! Military funerals for "heroes" only?

OMG! Are people really this clueless? If you know the history of military service in this country, even a little of it, then you know that the draft was making some go to war and some of them died, some were wounded and some earned medals for heroism. Now some yahoo comes out and says that only those who died in combat deserve a military funeral because of money? What about those who died of their wounds and were not killed during deployment?

Columnist: Ditch Funeral Honors for Non-Hero Vets
March 29, 2013
Spouse and Family News
by Amy Bushatz

“Bear in mind that most veterans did nothing heroic. They served, and that’s laudable, but it hardly seems necessary to provide them all with military honors after they have died.”

This is the argument offered by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Bill McClellan in his recent column on why the federal government should no longer provide military funeral honors to veterans.

Give honors only to those who have died in combat, he writes. If others want honors they should look to their veterans organizations such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VWF) to provide them.

“Everybody knows government needs to cut costs,” he writes. “This is exactly how you do it. You identify things you don’t need, and you cut them.”

McClellan bases his knowledge of the lack of heroism in veterans off his own experience in Vietnam.

“I did nothing heroic. Nor did any of my close friends. But I knew people who did, and it devalues the real heroes to say that everybody was one,” he writes. “If everybody is a hero, nobody is.”

I can see how he arrived at this conclusion. He’s saying that in a drafted military you are there because you have no other choice.
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Bushatz can see how he concluded that? Really? People have lost their minds!

WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam wars all had men drafted serving right along the side of those who enlisted. The day they take off their civilian clothes and put on a uniform is the day they become part of the mighty minority of members of the military. To give them anything less than a proper military funeral after spending the rest of their lives as veterans would be the ultimate disgrace.