thank you to Nam Vets (generations, drugs, 18 year old, crime)
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well, should you treat ww2 vets and Vietnam vets differently then? That seems to be the topic of the thread. Everyone already knew Vietnam war was useless.
Draftees no, they should all be treated with respect since they had no choice. If someone volunteered to participate in the shameful and immoral Vietnam War, they deserve little sympathy or respect.
Draftees no, they should all be treated with respect since they had no choice. If someone volunteered to participate in the shameful and immoral Vietnam War, they deserve little sympathy or respect.
hmm, Say if somebody joined the Army before the war, and he couldn't give his government his two weeks notice, Then what?
Draftees no, they should all be treated with respect since they had no choice. If someone volunteered to participate in the shameful and immoral Vietnam War, they deserve little sympathy or respect.
Were you even alive then? If so, did you fully understand what was at stake versus what you were being told by either the media or the government?
Have you conducted a poll of all surviving veterans to determine how many went to war for any variety of reasons?
How can one cover a whole generation of military personnel by the optics of the war of their period alone?
All of your serving and veteran military personnel deserve the respect due them regardless of their luck of the draw as it applies to "their" war; all of them.
Were you even alive then? If so, did you fully understand what was at stake versus what you were being told by either the media or the government?
Have you conducted a poll of all surviving veterans to determine how many went to war for any variety of reasons?
How can one cover a whole generation of military personnel by the optics of the war of their period alone?
All of your serving and veteran military personnel deserve the respect due them regardless of their luck of the draw as it applies to "their" war; all of them.
As soon as I graduated high school I received my Greeting induction papers.
Quote:
Greeting: You are hereby ordered to report for induction into the ARMED FORCES of the UNITED STATES, and to report at ...
(Still can't understand why they didn't put an S on the end of that word!)
After basic and airborne camps, I found myself as a snot-nosed nineteen year old 'kid' in some jungle that I had never even seen on a classroom map!
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