[river rat]

Roger your last!
This article doesn't pass the smell test...

I don't know a single warrior who "lost his pride"...
The only thing most of us lost was some beloved brothers, and respect for many of the leftists and cowardly bastards in America....

We never lost respect for ourselves or what we had accomplished.. Most folks don't realize - that U.S. forces NEVER lost a major engagement over the entire involvement in Vietnam..

The American Leftists, Leftist Media and weak kneed politicians lost the opportunity to free a nation, and wastefully sacrificed nearly 60,000 American lives and many times that number in horribly disfigured bodies and minds tormented by nightmares that wouldn't sleep.

Semper Fi

[CTOCS]

I left Danang in March of '69. Was there for 9 months. Flew with VQ-1 as a member of the Big Look Spooks out of NCS San Miguel, PI and Kamiseya, Japan. Made 67 missions over the North.

I too got spit on when I got off the plane in SFO. I back-handed the little bastard and kept walking. His hippy girl friend was screaming for security to arrest me. The cop just smiled and nodded at me. I kept walking.

I never felt ANY shame. I was from a military family. Father and both brothers were careerists. Mother was a Red Cross nurse at every duty station my father went to. I managed to do 12 years before they medicaled me out for injuries sustained in Nam.

I went on to staff duty in London, Instructor duty in Pensacola and Comm Chief duty in Rota Spain. Finished up- at CINCLANTFLT on limited duty while they were doing my medical boards. The 4 O6 officers on the board looked at me funny. Standing there with E8 stripes, wings and five rows of ribbons. They said I didn't look like a slacker. Told them if their doctors could fix me I'd be in for 30. But they couldn't. They let me out with 30%.

McNamera lost that war. He should have been shot for treason.

Lotsa VN vets on this forum. I salute you all, brothers in arms. Stay proud - and find some peace...