People like you blame the guys who put their lives on the line and say it was all wrong. It wasn't. They fought for the freedom of others regardless, and in spite of, the corruption in high places. But never have so many given so much and come home to be spat upon by the likes of Kerry and company.I never blamed the troops and consider them to be as much victims of bad policy as anyone else involved. Neither am I what you would call soft on communism. The troops were stuck between a rock an a hard place, the corruption of LBJ/Nixon on one side, and the craven AVRN and Air Marshal Ky on the other. They wern't being asked to fight for freedom, they were being asked to fight for a junta led by an incompetant. By the end of the war, almost everyone opposed it, even Johnny Cash was strumming out anti-war tunes. There were morons who spat on troops after the war, thinking that every GI was a Lt. Rusty Calley, but not everyone did, and the guys in VVAW probably less than most.
Now!!!
Shut up!!
Nah, I don't take orders too well.
Calley? After the war? How old are you anyway? Do you really believe that no one stuck a shiv in these guys until Calley or AFTER the *war???*
You don't think that the kids of 'Nam Vets were utterly shunned in schools and picked on until AFTER the war?
Kerry was, is, and always will be, a traitor. Youthful mistakes won't EVER get it. And the VVAW was the worst offending organization because those who really WERE vets betrayed their brothers in arms and helped them not one bit.