WELCOME HOME, brother-in-arms.
Your post above is SPOT ON, too.
Yours, TMN78247
USA, Retired
My wife and I got married after I retired from the Army (I was a single dad of two daughters for 11 years on AD) and she still cannot understand "how mean people were to military people coming back from Nam." I told her I was called baby killer and spit at in the Atlanta airport by some young hippy type punk. I was ready to smash his face in but thankfully a decent Cop came over, had seen it, and said: "go ahead Sarge, I'll deal with this punk," as he slammed his butt against a wall and started to do a very hard frisk on his balls!!!
I told her it was the anti-war crap. The stinking dims of that day were good at being anti-war at the same time they had a president who pushed it, picking out the bombing targets and not allowing commanders to fight the war. That is what I liked about Storming Norman, telling daddy Bush that Bush needed to tell them what he wanted done, then get his butt out of the way and letting him do it. Thankfully, we have a guy in there now that will do, I think, what needs to be done if it comes to it. I am sick of our people being kicked around by stupid politicians and punks.