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It's common among politicians and LEOs, not just veterans.
It's common for people making an appeal to nationalism instead of an actual argument.
Yeah, every politician really doubled down on flag pins after 9/11. It never really went away. Almost all of them do it or are afraid of being called unamerican if they don’t do it.
Obama went without one a single time in the 2008 campaign and got lambasted for it. It was never a thing before 9/11, but now it's just another bit the flag waving crayon eaters of the Republican party can use to pretend they're the only patriots.
Reminds me of the AIDs ribbon episode of Seinfeld. "Who!? Who won't wear the ribbon!?"