A number of years back, I was watching the Christmas 1976 episode of “All in the Family”. That, of course, was when a draft dodging friend of Mike Stivic’s comes to the Bunkers for dinner without first knowing that a friend of Archie’s, who lost a son in Vietnam, was also going to be there. I can remember at one point Mike lecturing to Archie “can’t you just admit we were wrong to be there to begin with?” Knowing that at that time in 1976, there were absolutely unspeakable things going on both in Vietnam and Cambodia with the Killing Fields, reeducation camps, etc, I was completely repulsed by the program. What utter selfishness of the Left and their friends in Hollywood concerning all of this, and that TV episode captures that sort of thing.
The other thing I’d like to mention is my Dad (even though very much liberal) one time telling me he had coworkers at his former company’s headquarters in Boston who knew a few of the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. As a result, while it has never been fashionable here in Canada, my thoughts still go out to decent and brave Americans who knew they were doing the right thing there in fighting these brutal, evil people that could and should have been beaten. Instead, thanks to Hollywood and Democrats who would have never let Nixon have this success, we all know what took place instead.
Over the course of the year, nearly 30,000 Canadian nationals fought for the US in Vietnam . . . nearly three times the total number of draft dodgers who went to Canada.