I know this is not why you write posts like the above, but let me thank you in the most sincere manner possible for your time in harm's way, and thank you again for your calmness in acknowledging the fickle and inexperienced viewpoints of current US foreign policy.
The reminder to me is that those who came before were not meglomaniacal empire builders, but veterans who experienced the ugliness of war firsthand in far-off places and sought to keep that ugliness as far from our shores as permittable by the diplomacies of the day.