And with no impediment to employment, unlike someone who may have committed an infraction and ended up with a less than honorable discharge. I’d disagree that Carter turned Viet vets into suckers, I think history will see Carter for what he was.
Disagree to your heart's content, I stand by my statement. Between Kerry/Fonda relegating us all to the level of murderers, dopers and baby rapists and Cahter pardoning the deserters and inviting them to "return home" with no conditions or requirements, trust me, he turned those of us who served into suckers. Cahter is the one former president whose grave I hope to have an opportunity to pee on.
Let me ask you this, with the Cahter Doctrine of pardoning deserters and draft-dodgers and the bedwetters taking patriotic men and women off the battlefield to stand trial for protecting themselves, their fellow soldiers and their countrymen by killing enemy terrorists who are trying to kill them first or making them wear panties on their heads, who will protect this country in the future?? We can ALL go to Canada and just wait it out - unless, of course, Canada gets pulled into it. We are destroying the capability of this nation to defend itself by threatening those very defenders with criminal proceedings for doing the job their country asked them to do. Do some people cross the line ala Hollywood war movies? Sure, just ask John F'n Kerry. But it's extremely rare and VERY isolated because their training and professionalism kicks in and keeps the vast majority from sinking to that level.
After Cahter did his thing to make us into suckers, it made me very cynical and distrustful. The way we were thrown under the bus by the media and the politicians was shameful. If you didn't experience it, you don't have a clue what you are talking about.