washamericom
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The complexity of Vietnam is a good reason not to erase history.Thanks for the good thoughts.I'm happy you feel comfortable telling that, the impact and ripple effect so devastating.I hail from a small farming community in which about forty kids rode a school bus thirty miles to HS in a different community. Of the twenty or so boys, I count a dozen who went to Nam. Three were KIA and three others were WIA, one losing both legs at his knees. There were eight boys in my Graduating Class. Seven of us did military service. I and four others went to Nam; two came home in a bag.Must have been nice to only have to go once.NoAbuses guns? Makes it sense to say so? Sounds strange in my ears. As ifg a gaun wo7zudlk be anincinent beings adn soen else is doing something bad to the gun. What I mean is that people use guns in a wrong way. For example by making other people fearful. "I own a gun" is able to be a harmless sentence - but it is also able to threaten someone with such a sentence for example.
'68 Chu Lai. How many died?What's dead Americans have to do with my post?Only a year?Well, I spent a year in combat. I didn't meet many Lefties or Righties - just a lot of Americans pulling for each other.Who is they?
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The left. Cowardly unpatriotic wastes of oxygen. One day of basic alone and they would hang themselves with their panties.
What kind of fucked up America lives in your head?
LolWhat's funny about dead Americans?Only a year?Well, I spent a year in combat. I didn't meet many Lefties or Righties - just a lot of Americans pulling for each other.Who is they?
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The left. Cowardly unpatriotic wastes of oxygen. One day of basic alone and they would hang themselves with their panties.
What kind of fucked up America lives in your head?
Lol
Going once was more than enough.
What is your point? Why so cryptic?
You may not like hearing it, but you are an American hero, your story is exactly why we cannot thank you enough, why we shouldn't stop trying.
My respect for you is ultimate. Even more for the way you were treated, while pos' like Bill ayers collect government pensions he (they) are the cowards antithetical to your bravery.
Thank You.
It's funny because I never thought much about what happened to the boys of that little farming town until years after Nam. I was flipping thru a book by Stanly Karnow, "A History of Vietnam" and ran across a comment about Bardsville, Ky and the price they'd paid. It got me to reviewing what had happened in a dusty little place in the California Desert.
Not everyone in the sixties protested. I was at the head of the Boomer Class, and our fathers served in the big one and we thought we were following in their footsteps. Didn't quite work out that way.
One of the best things aboute history is there's no time limit... unless.