Not sure what "heroes" you're referring to when I'm talking about blatantly open racists, sexists, and other fear-based hatred. Dragging those who fought for this country into the discussion is non-sequitur, though one does have to question which America they were fighting for. The United States or the Confederacy? Because a lot of the "Southern man" and those in the "Bible Belt" seem to still be clamoring for and defending the latter.
As much as “Sweet Home Alabama” is the better song, I gotta side with ol’ Neil on this one.
When we have literal nazi's holding their little tikki-torch marches in the street, the continues -- and open--persecution of minorities, the continued treatment of women by large groups of men as inferior to the point of many "proud boys" screaming at them to get back in the kitchen "where they belong" EXCUSE ME for calling them clowns and being bigoted against the bigots.
Especially when at its heart said movement is driven by noodle-doodle halfwitted fairy tales peddled by religion. In that way I admit it, I'm a bigot on two things: Religion, and persecution of people for things that they have no control over like circumstance of birth! If you want to call that "bigoted" then I'll wear that badge with pride.
As I've said many the time the problem isn't hate, it's what people hate. Becasue to be honest, anyone saying it's wrong to feel hatred against racist, sexists, deists, and the like is nothing more than part of the problem.
Though thank you for outing yourself as a defender -- and likely a practitioner -- of the ugliest parts of society that should have died off when all those "heroes" you're praising went abroad to put a stop to those very things you're defending.
Though that's oft typical of your flag-waving tone deaf anthem-standing, ritualistic indoctrinational socialist pledge reciting nationalists, who worship the symbols and trappings of America but care not a whit for the values, decency, or morality that they are supposed to represent. In that way many of these fools running around claiming to be "patriots" are nothing of the sort.
What's the joke? "Westboro Baptist is better than the Proud Boys for one reason. At least the former is honest about their conservative faith-driven nonsense being hatred for America, Soldiers, and its institutions."
Wish modern Trump-voting conspiracy nut far-right conservatives could at least see that in themselves. Screaming "America" and "Freedom" when they literally do not care about either; much less being unable to define them. Wanting to enshrine the four words from the 2nd amendment as if it wer a commandment, whilst wiping their backsides with everything else in that amendment, much less the constitution as a whole.
Because the great generation and boomers might have been heroes fighting abroad, but at home? Well what was J's monologue in Wolfenstein: New Order?
"When I was a kid, I wanted to see a picture show with my mom, but we had to go through the fucking colored entrance. I wanted a hot dog and a lemonade but the sign says, 'We don't serve negroes in this establishment.' You a patriot? Blue-eyed, jarhead, motherfucking Nazi killer that you are, you're still a fucking puppet to the man! You're exactly the kind of type they would have called in come lynching time. You don't get it, do you? Before all this, before the Germans, before the War, back home man, you were the Nazis!" -- J, Wolfenstein: New Order