Nah, they just feel sorry for us <img src="images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> hiding in the desert in our nice green uniforms <img src="images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I can't really take any credit - most of my career was spent sitting in a nice, air-conditioned building. (Granted, sometimes the building had no windows, which kinda sucked, but it wasn't any real hardship.)

My dad, OTOH, carried a Bren gun with a Scottish infantry regiment during WWII, survived an ambush in North Africa, and escaped three times as a POW in Italy. You are so right - those are guys who deserve respect.