I can't say that I personally experienced it. I don't relate to the Legion. I didn't relate to it before, because, frankly, when I first joined, I was younger. When I came back from the gulf, there were still a lot of people left from Korea and even World War II. They wouldn't have seen me as a veteran because the government doesn't call me a veteran.
Maybe 10 years ago I sat and listened to a representative from Veterans Affairs, I think, talk about the new veterans as opposed to the previous veterans. It was government for sure. I think it was Veterans Affairs. They talked about the new veterans and how they weren't the same as the old veterans. One of the people sitting beside me listening to this was in the former Yugoslavia and experienced combat. They were pretty darn upset to hear a government official say that.
We are not considered veterans by the government. We didn't fight in a war.