Most Vietnam vets I come across are dicks. I work cor one and he’s a good guy, but when I have to interact with any others, cor stuff like hiring a contractor for a service, and they’re wearing a Vietnam veteran ball cap, I’ll try to be respectful and strike up a normal conversation, likely mention my boss....whatever just trying to be nice, but they are mostly dickheads to talk to.
One of my close proximity neighbors is a Vietnam veteran, and he behaves like a complete crazy psycho, never greets me or my wife when we are outside, and has yelled at me before for driving too fast down the alley. I had to tell him to shut the eff up after that one.
Most Vietnam vets I come across are dicks. I work cor one and he’s a good guy, but when I have to interact with any others, cor stuff like hiring a contractor for a service, and they’re wearing a Vietnam veteran ball cap, I’ll try to be respectful and strike up a normal conversation, likely mention my boss....whatever just trying to be nice, but they are mostly dickheads to talk to.
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Untreated trauma and PTSD, social rejection, years of isolation and blame can do that. They were randomly drafted so it’s not like unsavory people became soldiers. They were younger, their lives trashed, and returned to be treated like trash. The ones I have known have been more reserved that most, but good men.
Most of the Vietnam Vets you run across today are fake, there’s less than 600,000 thousand of us left. The last units started rolling out in 73. I turn 71 in November and I left Vietnam in 71 and was discharged in 72, I was 19 years old when I enlisted. To be a Vietnam Vet we’re looking at a bare minimum age of 70. Most of those claiming Vietnam Vet status served during the period which ended in 1975. While they are Vietnam era Vet’s they never served in Vietnam. I’m not going to take anything away from them, they served and they could just as easialy been sent as the rest of us did. Luckily they wasn’t. But when they claim Vietnam service I get a little irritated. I had one the other day claiming he served in Vietnam when he didn’t even enlist until 1973. Yes he served during Vietnam but he never served in Vietnam.
Really? And it's clearly not in the realm of possibility that you are really the jerk in these encounters - you know, like speeding down an alley where any kid could pop out and get mown down?
“Most Vietnam vets I come across are dicks.”
You a millennial?