To be accurate, it’s the ones who were “captured” that are losers. Presumably he expects soldiers to be suicidal maniacs. He doesn’t want them surviving to be captured. Hence why he praises people who died in war.
He really does hate the military. They probably made him feel bad about his bone spurs.
Always wondered about those supposed bone spurs. If he had them and had surgery to get rid of them, wouldn’t there be a record of it? And if hadn’t had surgery, wouldn’t he find it quite difficult to walk and/or have quite a limp after having them for what, 50+ years? Seems to me that the spurs were quite spurious.
Shit, I missed this. How can anyone who served want anything to do with that asshole? He loathes the military. Probably because they’re the opposite of him; they sacrifice a lot for their country, have to follow a strong code, and follow orders to the letter, and many go into combat risking their lives or quality of life, with very little to compensate them. You flip all of that around the opposite way and it describes him quite a bit.