Agree with you Redneck..
As long as you are in Uniform you represent your countriys Armed Forces, and an act like that may most likely just put more fuel to the fire to those two punks...
A silent support (like saluting the flag) to the veteran could have been a good thing here..
(and then go around the next corner, take of your uniform, and THEN beat the crap out of those two bastards...

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