A more accurate title for the second article would be: “Challenger 2: The British tank that’s never been destroyed by the enemy (because it has never been in a peer2peer conflict teehee)”

I had a very similar experience. I got swept up in the post-9/11 jingoism. I felt I had to prove I was the Yankeest Doodle Dandy that ever lived and not some “terrorist” since my family is south-asian. My family isn’t even Muslim but that didn’t stop the racist remarks.