But what our leaders can do is screw up so bad that us old goats end having to defend our homeland, door to door. Did you hear that the Army extended the age to enlist from 36 to 42 years old just a few months ago.
There was nothing more demoralizing and gut wrenching to me in Nam and even to this day than when we were ordered back into villages that we had just fought in and won and many had died for just a few weeks earlier. You can't even begin to imagine the hopelessness we all felt as we spilled our blood over and over on the same damn spot endlessly. Talk about the killing fields, how about calling it "a young man's Country's butcher fields".
And now, God help us, a 100 years more in IraqNam !!! As much as I respect Sen. McCain as a Nam war hero and POW, I still have to ask: What kind of total insanity is this? War is hell but continuous war is hell on earth.
GP, Sergeant, retired, Vietnam Class of 67-69
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