Regarding the July 7 news article “Democrats step up efforts to recruit veterans to run”:

There needs to be a distinction between wooing voters who are veterans and leveraging the patriotism of nonveteran voters by wooing candidates who have served in the military. Democrats should understand that 89 percent of veterans are male and 82 percent were enlisted. In my experience, enlisted veterans sometimes resent officers they served under, all veterans hate those who overinflate their records, and no veteran likes those who constantly tout via yard signs and commercials the fact that they were in the military.