We've heard that a lot.
I'm going to tell you that we never had any casualties in the Persian Gulf, but we've had casualties since the Persian Gulf because of the Persian Gulf and because of what we were exposed to. Plain and simple, we have people in the memorial book downstairs, but we had to fight to get them in that book, just so you know. They didn't automatically go in it. That's where our casualties come from.
Now we have veterans out there who can't explain some of the illnesses they have; I have some, but nobody can tell me where it came from or what it is. God knows what it's going to do to me and what it's doing to other veterans out there.
No, we didn't lose anybody in the war, but you don't have to lose somebody in a war for them to be classified as a war veteran.