No kidding - even though I have never served or even enlisted I understand the sensitivity of this topic - when people find out I deliver mail, they assume I had served at one point. When my employment comes up I answer with 'I'm just a mailman, nothing more' to ensure that people don't even infer this of me.
-- I go out of my way to make this clear out of respect for those that have served, unlike this so-called attorney general.
It astonishes me every time a story about someone who lies about their service crops up, because it diminishes the service of those who actually did - and that's just wrong.