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Dick Blumenthal saw Vietnam combat - on TV
BostonHerald.com ^ | Howie Carr

Posted on 05/19/2010 6:54:50 AM PDT by Boston Blackie

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21 posted on 05/19/2010 7:58:55 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Everyone needs valid ID except illegal aliens and the President - only in America)
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Easy way to tell the real vets from the phony ones.
The real ones rarely talk about their experience. If they do, it’s with their buds. Only.


22 posted on 05/19/2010 8:05:26 AM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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Easy way to tell the real vets from the phony ones. The real ones rarely talk about their experience. If they do, it’s with their buds. Only.

I've found that to be true.

My dad was an Army Major with the Special Forces in Vietnam when I was a kid. On furloughs home to Okinawa, he would always be sort of spooky, and Mom made us kids walk on raw eggs around him.

That was in the mid-sixties. To this very day, he's never offered a word to anyone in the family about what he did in Nam, although he freely reminisces about our family's many moves, and his other deployments.

Nam is like a redacted page of his personal history, and none of us would even think of pressuring him to talk about it. Even after all these years.

23 posted on 05/19/2010 8:46:54 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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My grandfather was US Army Infantry in France 1917-1918. He was in the trenches until the armistice. Never spoke a word about it to anyone period. Barely acknowledged that he had been in the army. Best to let those memories die and stay that way.


24 posted on 05/19/2010 8:51:10 AM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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Best to let those memories die and stay that way.

That's just the thing....those memories never die. Combat vets don't refuse to talk about it because they've forgotten.

I'm sure it's just less painful for them to leave it in a lock box in the back of their minds.

25 posted on 05/19/2010 9:01:28 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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You said what I meant.
Well put.


26 posted on 05/19/2010 10:28:55 AM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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Here's a picture of me, shortly after I co piloted the Enola Gay in 1945. For my courageous actions I was awarded the super dooper medal of honor with 10 oak leaf clusters!

I wasn't born yet or I would have been in on the action in Europe:

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27 posted on 05/19/2010 2:46:20 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (No Romney,No Mark Kirk (Illinois), not now, not ever!)
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