As a veteran who spends a great amount of time advocating for other veterans, nothing is more painful than hearing from a service member's family that their soldier, sailor, airman or Marine - good and patriotic American men, who perform some of the most dangerous work imaginable to defend us, are devoured whole and then spit out by the insidious disease of political correctness, simply because they had the courage of their convictions to stand up and serve their country.