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To: AQGeiger
All the men languishing in military hospitals right now with mental disorders are just slackers to you is that it? Patton slapped that soldier who was battle fatigued and he was right? Their fault huh? Try taking care of a great uncle for 40 years who saw real war. Then tell me about how "strong" you are. You are a disgusting person.
231 posted on 03/09/2004 9:44:49 PM PST by Burkeman1
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To: Burkeman1
We make collective mistakes often when we prosecute a war of any kind, and often in the course of time the purpose becomes muddied and difficult to grasp..

But for the men who fight them, the purpose is clear and must remain so.

They fight and often die for their country and their flag. A purpose and cause that is right, even when the leadership is wrong.

Great care must be used when one is critical of a war or a use of military force.

Always.......

That is what a patriot is and does.

When you take a good look at the Vietnam war and put it into perspective. You find that although we technically lost the conflict and withdrew with large losses, we actually won when one considers what the big picture goal was. We stopped the spread communism in it's tracks, not just by that one action, but by a series of actions throughout the world, both subsequent, prior to, and including Vietnam. Cuba being another one.

I am fortunate to have lived through the cold war and to have seen the fall of the "wall". And, I did my part in West Germany while we pressured the Communists of that front of the war in 1970.

Was it worth it?

Sure it was! because we are all free to talk about it now. If we had lost, we would not be talking about this now, or ever.

232 posted on 03/10/2004 10:15:32 AM PST by Cold Heat (Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain)
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To: Burkeman1
I consider it a compliment that a coward of your caliber consider me a disgusting person.

Oh, by the way, my husband just returned from a year in Iraq, has fought in "real war," as you put it, has killed people, has buried some of his fellow soldiers and seen both military and civilians get blown up, shot, et cetera, and isn't maladjusted after returning. Some people are simply not cut out for the rigors of combat.
233 posted on 03/14/2004 4:36:08 AM PST by AQGeiger (I am proud to be the wife of an infantryman in the 82nd Airborne.)
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