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Old 03-06-2008, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by raymr View Post
I can often tell when I'm talking with a Vietnam vet. They pause and get expressionless when talk about that war comes up. You can tell there are mental wounds that will never heal. Their experience wasn't helped by the non-welcome they got back home.
The poor welcome was not a big percentage of the population. Just self absorbed anti warrers. I could never figure that one. It seemed to me always that the vets were as much victims as the vietnamese.

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