8 Memorable Soap Opera Veterans

In honor of Veterans Day, below is a list of 8 Memorable Soap Opera Veterans from daytime history.  Soaps have been telling stories about the men and women who serve in the military for decades from many different points of view.  Tell us which stories have been your favorites over the years in our Comments section.

VETERAN: Tommy Horton (played by John Lupton)
SHOW: Days of our Lives
SERVED: Army ("Korea")
COMMENT:
"In 1968 we wrote a story line that had one of our characters, Tommy Horton, return from Vietnam with amnesia and post-traumatic stress disorder," exec producer Ken Corday told Mental Floss in a 2011 feature. "War was completely raging at the time, and the network wouldn't let us mention it in any way whatsoever. They said, 'No, let’s just say that he came back from Korea.' We said, 'Wait, Korea was 1950 … this is 1968!' But they insisted that we couldn't talk about Vietnam. So he came back from Korea."