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My dad was at UofM right after WW2 and observed wards of vet patients afflicted with head wounds. My sense of it all is that the real devastation of war is unbelievable in the broken bodies after its over. And veterans hospitals are full of broken spirits from the conflict, in my opinion.

It's not a mystery why the conflict was lost and it was at the top. Lessons learned from Viet Nam helped in Desert Storm and made our military second to none. My sincere hope is that our guys fighting now get the support now and afterwards that they need to do their job well and protect me and my family.

God bless America. God bless us all.

We're always amazed to hear these things. My husband was with the Americal Division first tour and the First Infantry Division second tour. He served as a combat company commander 18 of those 24 months 1967 thru 1969 and never had a problem with his men being on drugs or alcohol. We lost 87 friends over there but have stayed in touch with almost everyone left from our group of friends. None of our friends were ever unemployed....or in drug rehab...or in AA. All came in to the Army as high school graduates or GED and left with a college degree. We just don't understand who the Vietnam vets were that created the profile for all Vietnam Vets.

"drunkeness was rampant even in the medical corps"

True, but drunkeness was always rampant among 20 somethings regardless of wether they were in the military or some frat house. For those Vietnam Vets that endured the spitting, demonizing, and other BS that the liberal hippie bastards put out, they have a much higher sucesss rate than the general population. Thanks to the GI bill many of us are doing just fine thank-you.

There are still some who try to portray the Vietnam Vet as the drug addicted pshcyo killer. It was particularly tough on those that came home to places like Californicate.

Despite rampant descrimination in jobs and other areas of life, Vietnam Vets are more sucessful than their peacenick counterparts.

There are a lot of us out there, and we are still not Fond of Jane, or Bill Clinton as far as that goes.

A thread here recently asked if Vietnam Vets were actually spit on. It was worse than that. I wore my dress blues to the unemployment office and was told nobody was going to hire me. It would be a good idea to grow long hair, take off the uniform, and collect unemployment. I might get attacked. Well, I was attacked, and one of those hippie bastards still has a toothless grin or wears dentures. I know becuase I still have the scar on my knuckle, where I punched his teeth out.

Sorry but the expertise of our docs and nurses are the reason so many are alive today to enjoy offspring like you.
I enjoy my three and thank God for them. The medical staff at our place was second to none and the older I get the more I am amazed at what they accomplished. We also spent time at a Catholic hospital and a leper colony in our off hours. The repaired lips, cleft palets and eye surgery were what we did on out days off. I am so sick of the crap spewed about Vietnam Vets. I worked my arse off in heat from hell as did dozens of others. Drunks my ass