I file this under the heading titled "A Thing Happened". Some reporter found some person (or persons) of no particular significance who are upset by this thing, and reporter gets them to talk about thing because it will get people riled up. It's not news - it's dumb tabloid gossip. I especially hate when it zeroes in on veteran opinions because its cheapness further erodes the cultural cachet that veteran status holds. Who cares what's got some individual veteran's panties in a wad today? Soon enough you're going to see people who give zero fucks about veterans, and it will be due in no small measure to articles like this.
I mean, shit, this is a news article derived from FACEBOOK COMMENTS. Let that sink in for a minute. Somewhere, an editor at the Daily Mail got a hot tip that some vets were mad at something on Facebook and said, "Oh boy, what a scoop!" and gave the story to one of his reporters to jam out 600 words by closing time. That's just incredibly sad.
