Number of veterans in Congress has fallen drastically since post-Vietnam years:
As the federal government struggles with problems at the Veterans Administration amid thousands returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it does so with a Congress that has only a fourth of the number of veterans it had after Vietnam.
It’s not a mystery, actually. Some seventeen paragraphs down, the article mentions the end of the draft.
The intervening paragraphs try to tie the declining number of veterans in Congress to the VA scandal. As though only veterans can represent veterans. You know, the same thinking that brings gender quotas to parliamentary systems and tribal counting to government.
No word in the article about the recent presidents who did not serve, which include Clinton and Obama. That’s a strange omission, ainna?
