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To: Chainmail

You are a good person, then. I still can not get over the demonstrations, and every time I see or hear John Kerry, I just feel like - well, I have no words to describe it really - loathing is close though.


25 posted on 06/24/2016 3:55:54 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: greeneyes
I remember the demonstrations too and the lousy way they treated us when we got back. I was deeply hurt and withdrew back to just the friends who had made it back with me.

After a long while, we adjusted and later yet, we realized that the decisions that 18 or 19 year olds make are just that. Those who chose to take a different path and avoid our war for whatever excuse, made that decision a lot of years ago and that's the path they must live with.

Our path, the path of serving our country in a foreign war was a hard one but in the process, we learned what we were made of and what we could endure for the sake of our people. I am proud of us and always will be. My fellow Vietnam veterans are still my closest friends but at least now I understand better the rest of my generation and try not to hold their choices against them.

28 posted on 06/25/2016 4:51:58 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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