From Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq, veterans reflect on their military service and what patriotism means to them.
![Rob Reynolds with the non-profit AMVETS at Veteran's Row in Los Angeles [Morgan Godvin/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_1127.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Morgan Godvin is a student at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health in Portland, where she has lived most her life.
From Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq, veterans reflect on their military service and what patriotism means to them.
![Rob Reynolds with the non-profit AMVETS at Veteran's Row in Los Angeles [Morgan Godvin/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_1127.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The US spent so much fighting phantom enemies and creating the myth of good versus evil that it ignored the real threat.
