Country most confident in the military

In a recent Gallup poll (see below), our fellow citizens rated the military highest of American institutions on a confidence scale (% great deal of confidence and % quite a lot of confidence.  As a retired Marine, I would have responded similarly.  No surprise, right?

But what is surprising is that (unless only conservative, veteran, bikers were polled) the results reveal our nation as a whole holds the military in high esteem (liberals and independents; blacks and whites; male and female; young and old; urbanites and farmers; west coast and east coast; etc.).  This is crucially important, especially in view of the fact that less than one-half of one percent of our people are serving in the military and less than 10 are military veterans.

Leaves me a proud American and retired Marine.