I worked in San Francisco for a bit, and the obsession that the US has for their military and veterans is something that I've never seen anywhere else, it's insane what a high reguard they have for their military.
I spent a few hours with a couple of Vientam vets in a bar in Nha Trang in January and they would not agree with you.
https://www.deltacollege.edu/org/deltawinds/DWOnli...
My observations were from a dozen years ago, not the 70s.
One thing you don't see in the US which you see in some other countries are things like guys in their twenties without the bottom half of their bodies in full military uniform, begging.
Everywhere in the US has veterans support, veterans and active millitary discounts, etc.
They glorify war and their fighting men and it's actually sickening.