.….and my boyhood friend, Bobby Roberts, would not have caught a Viet Cong bullet in the forehead at 18 years old and he would be living down the street from me with grandkids instead of being 6’ under the past half century!
And my cousin who was a Marine in Vietnam killed trying to drag a wounded comrade to safety would have married the girl of his dreams and raised a family. Instead his dream girl married someone else, had children, then killed one of them because she never really recovered from loosing my cousin. She ended up in a mental institution thanks to LBJ and Robert McNamara, may they be burning in Hell as this is written.
The operative question in this article was “for what?”
The same can be applied to EVERY conflict that has taken our young people’s lives and an irreplaceable debt since the end of WWII. It ought to be enshrined in law, that the children of those who force us to go to war, have to be the first conscripted without any possibility of relief. Our government has been really good at letting our every day citizens and their children shoulder the burdens of war.
No one would suggest that we not defend our country, but we need to stop defending others who have come to expect that we will be their saviors with our blood and treasure.