Re: Viet Nam Vets

Posted by JDseller on November 09, 2011 at 20:34:22 from (208.126.196.144):

In Reply to: Viet Nam Vets posted by Old Roy on November 09, 2011 at 17:25:51:

I joined the Army in June of 1968. I did not even turn eighteen until Aug. 10th of 68. I joined for several reasons: 1)I believed in trying to protect Democracy and help others to have it. 2) Sence of duty to my country. There is a cost for having freedom. Many don't want to pay it but want to enjoy it. That does PO me. 3) Farming at the time was just a living not a rich man's game. As the oldest of five children and plus being married with a child on the way, I joined to get a college education.

I then join the reserves in 1978 when I left active duty. I just hated to see what Carter did to the service. I retired in 1999 from the Army reserves.

I have never been bothered by my actions in Nam. No flash backs or night mares of the fighting. I DO have them about the women and children killed/starved/abused. Those I see in my night mares.

As for what the people here thought about what went on over there. I could not care less about that. They did not get "real" information about what was really going on. The media had a big hand in causing the war to be lost. Walter Cronkite was a man I hated for his bias coverage of the war. We would win a major battle and he would go and say we had lost it. We where inflicting casualties at a 40-1 ratio in many of the battles and the reporters would say we where getting the short end of the battle. I have helped bury whole villages that the VC killed just because they though the village supported the South. I have always wanted to take Old Cronkite and Hanoi Jane to see some of the things their friends did.

I have two grand sons in the service now. I am proud as can be of them. My oldest is back on active duty after being wounded in Afghanistan. I have other grand kids that say they want to join when they are old enough.

So I guess my family will be protecting many of the ones that raise cane about how it is done. While they set on their butts and do nothing. This occupy wall street bunch are prime examples of what is wrong in this country now. Everyone wants the good life but few are willing to do what it takes to have that good life.

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