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excon |
05/02/04 |
Hello experts:
I served five and half years in the military. I was supposed to be released on my 21st birthday in 1964, but with two weeks to go, I got a telegram from the Defense Department. They told me they needed me in a place called Viet Nam. Now, where the hell was that? Well, I found out.
After my return home, my support for the war was unfailing. In the summer of ’68 I went to a peace march in LA to see what the fuss was about. I didn’t go to march. I wore my uniform (w/medals) and stood on the sidelines. The cops still beat me up.
Shortly thereafter, I was watching the evening news. They gave the obligatory daily body count – 47 American dead, 748 Viet Cong killed. Then they went on to the Paris peace talks. They were not talking about peace, however. No, the topic at hand was the shape of the table they were going to be seated at. Not how may people were killed that day or how to stop it, but they were discussing the shape of ****ing table.
47 of my brothers - dead on the battlefield, and all they could talk about was the shape of the table. Hmmm. This is insane. I didn’t want to be on their side anymore, and I haven’t been.
The War in Iraq has all the components of Viet Nam, only compressed in time. It even has its own brand of insanity "the re-Baathification of the de-Baathified.."
We have lost our way.
excon
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