On or about 9/16/03 10:28 AM Charles ever-so-carefully typed:
>>Bill (wishing someone had supported me by bringing me home from Vietnam)
>
> What was done to the troops coming home from Vietnam was a sin. I
>was in the Army from 1975-79 and am familiar with it, though I never had
>to serve in Vietnam.
It's interesting (at least *I* think it's interesting) that I know more
Vietnam vets that were snubbed by their local Legion posts and VFWs when
they arrived home, than were mistreated by protesters. Some of those
Vietnam vets became protesters themselves, after all, and a fraction of
those were mistreated again for exercising the first-amendment rights
that they'd sworn to defend.
I support our troops, yes... my heart aches for them.
I do not support my country's current foreign policies.
Vietnam taught me - big time - not to confuse those two things.
Roger Diggle
" ... to announce that there must be no criticism of the President
and that we must stand by the President whether he is right or wrong
is not only unpatriotic and servile but morally treasonous."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - 1918
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