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Originally Posted by cmac2012
It's clear that you've endured a great deal as a result of your service. I'm sure you've got many complaints about the war that are far more valid than mine.
I've never gone out of my way to give any vet crap about anything. But after 30 - 40 years of being given crap of my own, directly or indirectly, about being some kind of draft dodging coward, I'm disinclined to not speak frankly about my end of the experience.
The war struck me as bizarre and pointless. No way was I going to take the chance of being stuck under some nimrod dweeb like William Calley ordering me to slaughter peasants. Or Westmoreland. The guy turned my stomach.
It's a wide chasm in American between the pro and anti Vietnam war crowd. It's very much an issue still in play.
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i would love to go into it with you - you seem to be real
almost all of the guys i grew up died of lead poisoning, and the others are on the left and most took the path you did, don't let anyone get under your skin about not going into the service. you need to know this - in the groups i have been involved with it has come up many times about the drafted guys, as well as the guys who were looking for any reason not to be in country, they having a different take on being in the zone caused them to be more at risk of losing their lives than the guys who were their for patriotic reasons < they did stupid things i think they were pre octupied and it caused then to make real mistakes and their was no room for them -
as a FNG and someone who was not wanting to do what it took you probly would be on the wall in DC < my take
Anyway -- the guy who runs the open forum has a hardon for me and every week he has given me an infraction so the chances are i will be thrown off the site soon, others have e mailed me telling me seeing what is happening, to contact the owner of the site - i have never been good at contacting authority about anything hahahahahahahahaha --
i will continue to post up to the end -- and if we get into to it i will be banished for sure --- jz