Boomers never withdrew from Vietnam, the nation’s leadership did, and Vietnam was a war fought mostly by volunteers, not draftees like WWII and other major wars were up to that time, relatively few of the 9.4 million boomers veterans are draftees.
If you are whining and complaining this much now, what will you do if we get into a war where we lose tens of thousands in combat, what will you do at a peacetime tempo that kills thousands in training every year?
When you were in the military was it losing thousands dead every year just in training?
“When you were in the military was it losing thousands dead every year just in training?”
Military won’t take me I’m disabled so I have no choice in the matter.
As for me, that’s no excuse. You do the job you’re assigned, you do what it takes to win. Did the folks in WWII just up and quit?
No. And we won’t. We’ve already won one war against Iraq, and we’ll win these next two. We’ve never had a day of peace since we’ve come of age. Not one. I was 19 when the tower was hit. We’ve fought for 11 years since, with no end in sight. When my father was 20, the war was over and they had 20 years of peace until desert storm.
That’s the Boomer legacy. Even the oldest boomer was out of Vietnam by the age that I am today.
You want to talk about shared sacrifice, let’s talk about shared sacrifice. But it’s the young men and women that are out there putting their lives on the line to make sure that another 3k civilians do not die again in the tower.
Where were the Boomers when they were in charge in 2001? Why did they not protect the country? Why were you all asleep at the switch?
You had 8 years of Clinton, and when they were done, the tower was hit.