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At least I know where I can take a piss if I ever get up that way.

That's why we have Fedex.

I gotta go find some corks.

I'm an American who has studied the Viet Nam era. The war was only meant to be fought, not to be won. Look at the conduct of the US Government and some of the private contractors helping to rebuild Iraq and you'll see the same dirty business going on. Despite the continuing loss of lives of both Americans and Iraqis and the prisoner abuse scandal, I feel the invasion was justified, only poorly executed. Viet Nam, as history will show you, was entirely different from the beginning.

Thanks to the willingness of the Canadian Government to admit draft dodgers, my cousin, whom I will not name here, was spared the humiliation suffered by those who went and fought. It didn't matter if you dodged or fought. Either way, you were scum. My cousin had a decision to make. He had just graduated college and was engaged to be married two weeks from the day he dodged. His fiance joined him three weeks later in Windsor, Ontario.

To many, he may be a coward and a traitor. To me and many others, he's a hero because he stood up to one of the most powerful governments in the world when millions knew that government was wrong. He and his wife could've returned to the US a long time ago, but chose to stay up there, a decision for which I commend them.