I game with this Vietnam vet who is one of the coolest motherfuckers I've ever met and I've met some cool motherfuckers. He got wind of an exploit in the game and messaged me to get in the server NOW so he could dump massive amounts of items on me. Dude would give you the shirt off his back if he respects you but if he thinks you're a good for nothing lazy piece of shit you won't rate a hello, much less any support. He's low-key racist and a little sexist too but he'll try to keep it under wraps when we have a big group going just to be polite

He'll say some off the wall shit about blacks this or women that and then apologize but I'm like don't apologize dude, doesn't offend me any. At the end of the day he treats me as an equal which is more than I can say for a "male feminist" who's just saying a bunch of shit he doesn't believe to get good boy points from a chick. Actions speak louder than words and all that.
Those guys were done so dirty. Fodder for the banker war machine, used up and tossed away. Yet when you ask them they'll still say they love their country because they, unlike much of the current generation, understand that politics and people are two separate things. You can hate what people in power are doing without turning into a sniveling cosplay commie.