Tyrades! Can Public Figures Stop Cheapening Veterans Day?

If you designed a banner declaring, “The world is full of crazies” and ran it up the flagpole, assuredly, I would salute it.

On the other hand, as Veterans Day approaches, I realize the world is also full of opportunists -- opportunists who devalue the dangers faced by the nation’s military personnel.

We’ve all witnessed it with increasing frequency: some office-holder, bureaucrat or celebrity (a) gets pushback for a totally outrageous statement or (b) finally gets busted engaging in some flavor of financial/political/sexual skullduggery.

Instantly, they switch from time-honored “fight or flig...