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Guennie... one of the problems with this whole Vietnam thing that has been brought to the forefront again by sKerry's words and actions is... the memories are not pleasant and I have to be in just the right place and circumstance to be able to speak about it. I have peace about it now but still reluctant to just talk unless there is relevancy.

I appreciate your query... and I know your heart. Perhaps sometime we'll talk about it.

I posted something... not much... on a thread the last couple of days but not sure how to locate it now. I don't even recall what the thread was about. Doesn't say much for my memory but then....

Here's a quote from a Mark Steyn article located here:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn29.html

"So when John McCain sternly warns the swift boat veterans of ''reopening the wounds of Vietnam,'' it's worth asking: Why is Vietnam a ''wound'' and why won't it heal? The answer: not because it was a military or strategic defeat but because it was a national trauma. And whose fault is that?

Well, you can't pin it all on one person, but, if you had to, Lt. John F. Kerry would stand a better shot at taking the solo trophy than almost anyone. The ''wounds'' McCain complains of aren't from losing Vietnam, but from the manner in which it was lost. Today Sen. Kerry says he's proud of his anti-war activism, but that's not what it was. Every war has pacifists and conscientious objectors and even disenchanted veterans, but there's simply no precedent for what John Kerry did: a man who put his combat credentials to the service of smearing his country's entire armed forces as rapists, decapitators and baby killers. That's the ''wound,'' Sen. McCain. That's why a crummy little war on the other side of the world still festers. That's why the band didn't play ''Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be'' and move on to the next item of business. Because Kerry didn't just call for U.S. withdrawal, he impugned the honor of every man he served with."

My coment: sKerry doesn't have the smarts to know how badly he wounded a nation, especially those veterans who fought with and around him. He used it all for his own glory then, and I believe he will pay for it now.