Thank you so much my dear friend. I saw the other one too on the first thread and WOW I appreciate it soooooooooo much. Thank you.
I first heard BG Burkett talk about his book and the years of research that proved the lies of Hollywood and the left, with their disrespectful and unwarrented scorn and/or pity of our Vietnam Vets. They clearly have trouble understanding the concept of honor, loyalty and true freedom on the left. Reminds me of Nero and Rome. Nero jumped at the chance to blame the Christians for Rome's destruction/ burning - and it worked, for a time. Jesus had been crucified and rose from the dead in their generation and the Christians did not respect Roman authority. For three hundred years Christians were brutally tortured, fed to the lions and crucified in Rome partly because the Romans chose to believe Nero's lies and blame the Christians. Today, no textbook, movie or documentary claims that Christians burned Rome. Early texts survived and proved otherwise. "Stolen Valor" will survive, as will FR, and the truth. Bless you.
Short cut version:
THREAD ONE
Stolen Valor: Shattering the Myths of Vietnam ; Exclusive to NewsMax.com! Excerpts from: Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History by B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley.
Seventy-eight percent were homeowners, paying mortgages on traditional, single-family homes -- and more likely to own a home than their peers who did not go to Vietnam. Eight of every 10 surveyed were married and 90 percent had children.
About one-third of Vietnam-era veterans entered the military through the draft, far lower than the 67 percent drafted in World War II.
The force that fought in Vietnam was America's best educated and most egalitarian in the country's history....In World War II, only 45 percent of the troops had a high school diploma.... Proportionately three times as many college graduates served in Vietnam than in World War II.... 30 percent of the KIAs came from the lowest third of the income range; but 26 percent of the combat deaths came from families earning in the highest third.
About 5 percent of those who died were Hispanic and 12.5 percent were black -- making both minorities slightly under-represented in relation to their proportion of draft-age males in the national population.
Except for the last couple of years of the war, drug usage among American troops in Vietnam was lower than for American troops stationed anywhere else in the world, including the United States. Even when the drug use started to rise in 1971 and 1972, almost 90 percent of the men who had ever served in Vietnam had already come and gone. ...drug use was more common among non-veterans than Vietnam-era veterans.
- Seventy-four percent said they "enjoyed their time in service."
- Eighty percent disagreed with the statement "the United States took unfair advantage of me."
- Fifty-six percent of Vietnam veterans said they benefited in the long run by going to Vietnam. Only 29 percent said they were set back.
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Ninety-one percent of those who served in Vietnam were "glad they served their country."
