Yeah, I remember when it was Vietnam vets that were being portrayed as nuts all over the place. The media was completely blowing off the fact that drug use, domestic violence, and other crimes were being committed by Vietnam vets at a MUCH LOWER rate than the national average. Same thing is going on now with Iraq/Afghanistan vets. We’re being told that they’re all a bunch of nuts with PTSD that come home and go on mass-shootings. It’s completely assinine.
BINGO!!!!!!!
I remember it well.
Guys from my unit were routinely discriminated against after discharge.
One, applying for a job at a major NYC advertising agency, had to get a letter from me that, while under my command, he had never used drugs, killed a Vietnamese, etc.
When I wrote back that he had never killed an Vietnamese who was not bearing arms against him, they refused to employ him.
I had to get one of my then-law school profs, a veteran of Anzio, write a letter threatening all sorts of litigation. They relented and hired him.