@Smokin Joe
I suspect many more of us than most people would suspect.
Including damn near everyone that made a career out of military service.
I knew of him and his fellow fighter pilots decades ago. Maybe not as much as I know now,but I knew who they were.
I guess the question should have been "how many under 30 know of the wars he fought in?"
Sure, those of us who have been around 50 years know, after all we mostly had relatives or friends who fought in those wars, if we did not do so ourselves, and for those in the services that knowledge is there as a matter of course.
But as the percentage of youth who enter the service becomes smaller, and movies like "Pork Chop Hill" fade into the back rows on streaming channels, how many who haven't served know of the battles from the Pusan Pocket to the Yalu and back to the current DMZ before the cease fire? How many could point out which end of Vietnam had I Corps or the Delta, or where the Parrots Beak is?
I hope I am wrong, but it seems that despite a lot of attempts to make the general population aware of the sweat and sacrifice of even modern day veterans, the usual suspects in the media tend to downplay that, especially in the face of situations like Biden's Afghanistan debacle, because any failure involved almost always belongs on the doorstep of Democrat politicians.