Magicpole
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The cost paid by so many who served there didn't end when they came home. The urge to, "put Vietnam behind us" to forget, must have been such a kick in the teeth.
America always reveered its soldiers. Not in any real or actual way, but more in a way that makes people feel better about themselves, without really doing fuckall for them.
That's a global phenomenon though. It's like the useless, thoughts and prayers. Well thoughts and prayers never solved or helped any problem.
To be there and endure that and to come home and be blamed for being there was shameful.
They were sent there, they went, they fought and died and those lucky to come home were betrayed by the country. It wasn't their fault. They didn't start or continue the war.
The decisions to continue the conflict, knowing they could never win, tells us all we need to know about how much politicians love service personnel. Those decisions to me were no more than murder. They lied on an industrial scale.
The problems your family suffered due to your dad having gone through that is tragic. If he is still alive, tell him there are people across the world who respected them. Not the war, not the bullshit reasons for the war. But them. Those that had to deal with it.
I am one of those people.