I too have a military family, and it’s ok to be angry at them.
The inherent integrity of the military has changed a lot over the past two or three generations, but the blind worship of the military has not.
What would most people have said to the soldiers who committed the Mai Lai Massacre? Or the Abu Ghraib tortures?
“Thank you for your service.”
Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to indict furries as a whole, but to point out the crossover exists because it’s interesting.
Know Your Meme has a good breakdown of the culture, starting in 2005. Wikifur also has an article about it.
And it’s not hard for all of the things he described to be furry. That’s the joke.