This IS a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served think
    of the military.

 Metzenbaum (speaking to Glenn): "How can you run for Senate when you've never held a real job?"

Prospective Senator Glenn: "I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served
through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire
on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It was not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank." "I ask you to go with me .. . as I went the other day... to a veteran's hospital and look those men .. with their mangled bodies . in the eye, and tell
THEM they didn't hold a job! You go with me to the Space Program at NASA
and go, as I have gone, to the widows and Orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom
and Roger Chaffee... and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that
their DADS didn't hold a job. You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch those waving flags. I tell you, Howard Metzenbaum, you should be on your knees every day of your life thanking God that there were some men - some men - who held a job. And they required a dedication to purpose and a love of country and a dedication to duty that was more important than life itself. And their self-sacrifice is what has made this country possible.... I have held a job, Howard!"