Stolen valor

Look. She deserves respect for her real accomplishments, which are many (see here). And she's not the one exaggerating them. But being in the military while a war is going on doesn't mean you served in the war. I was in freaking Germany but I have a Vietnam service medal (aka "everybody button"), because it's VIETNAM WAR ERA, as it plainly says right there in the photo. She was only stationed in the US and Okinawa (the latter in the 1950s). She was never in Korea OR Vietnam.

Why don't conservatives understand that this is "stolen valor" just as much as buying a Silver Star on Ebay?