My dad's retired Air Force and we're all Dems, so the two don't have to go together. If you look at the way the Republicans have treated veterans, you can get a pretty good idea of why my dad votes Democrat.

Also look long and hard at the way the right wing has used former POW Jessica Lynch - first planting false stories about her in the media to bolster support for the war, and then, when it came out that those stories weren't true, using her capture and (purported - she refues to talk about it, although the new biography says she was) rape to argue that women shouldn't be allowed in the military, and looking down their noses at her because she may have been photographed topless. (Wow, that is some more run-on sentence!)

Sorry, didn't mean to rant. . .