Literally every single veteran I know (and I know many) hate Bowe's guts.
Yeah well, I've known some veterans in my life, too, who still thought Adolf was a nice guy at heart and actually did some good for the country and that the Russians and Jews should all be killed after all. Thankfully those veterans are almost gone now. I chose to ignore their bullshit because, you know, not everything an elderly person or a veteran says, is worth listening to.
The golden rule is to never pay attention to anything someone with a bias says or thinks because in 9 out of 10 cases they also have no idea what they're talking about. Believing them and repeating what they said without making up your own mind, is intellectual incest!
Keeping an open mind means coming up with your own conclusions and not simply repeat what others told you. If you do the latter, you're nothing more than a parrot and you wanna be more than that. I know it's sometimes hard to get rid of the ballast people put onto you but at some point you should be mature enough to scrutinize what others say. We would have a lot less trouble in the world, if everybody would just do that.
Keep in mind that a valid opinion is
always a result of knowledge, not a result of what your grandpa or your daddy or the neighbor next door or a friend or colleague said.
If you only believe certain stuff that comes from certain sources, you sooner or later end up being a fanatic, not much different from those people who you apparently despise so much.