Many thanks for your prayers. I was in church last Sunday, actually the post chapel on Fort Campbell where the congregation was mostly young soldiers & soldiers with their families. At the conclusion the pastor made a bunch of announcements then remembered Veterans’ Day was coming up.
He asked all Vietnam veterans to stand. Four of us old f@rts stood up then the pastor called for a round of applause (which I hate during church service). I felt awkward since it’s been 42 years since I last came under fire and all these young soldiers in the 101st Airborne have or will be deployed again & again.
Of course the leftwing jerks at Salon are no more than the spawn of those who reviled us for serving in Vietnam, I get that.
The real tragedy is that military service is now performed by only a small percentage of the population and it is getting smaller. Doing a hitch in the service used to be like a rite of passage to adulthood or full citizenship. Used to be a majority of members of Congress were veterans but now it is less than 30%.
I went, I did my job, & I’m grateful that vets are treated better now than in the Vietnam era. Meanwhile the worthless no accounts at Salon.com can go bleep themselves. And I always will hate Jane Fonda, neverending.
THANK-YOU for your service and you are NOT an old fart. MY BIL is a Vietnam war vet, Air Force.
Like a lot of 19 year olds, I was drafted in 1966 and even though I hadn't given a lot of thought to enlisting I saw it as doing my duty, but your comment about the rite of passage to adulthood was on the mark. I think the country might have taken a turn for the worse when the draft was ended.
...That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.... Henry V