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Author: fmomoonfmomoon Date: Dec 26, 2008 16:21
> "fmomoon" comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:mICdnblKIrXp88jUnZ2dnUVZ_qTinZ2d@giganews.com...>> Seon, I don't think TC was old enough. Whether or not Bob was and did or
>> did not serve is his business. As you say, you weren't there. You have
>> no idea what the young men dealt with from that time. We lost a
>> generation of men and women during those terrible years. I've always
>> felt that we were not the generation like my parents' generation. We
>> were not "The Greatest Generation." Who knows what kind of leaders we
>> lost because of that war? My father rarely said anything about WWII.
>> However he did say one thing that stuck with me: "The unlucky ones are
>> the walking wounded guys who came back from the war." I know men from my
>> generation who are still, in their own way, fighting the Viet Nam war.
>> 35 years later, it is still a sore subject in this country. I don't know
>> if there will ever be a clear and definitive answer. It happened, and
>> whether or not it should have happened is moot. What we do now is move
>> on and try not to make the same mistakes twice.
>> --
>> Moni The Kid
> The trouble is history always repeats. Look at Iraq. It is interesting to
> know my Grandfather wasn't the only ww2 vet to not want to talk about his
> experiences. What you said is basically what Eartha said. She just said
> America was loosing its brightest generation. Of course you could be right
> maybe they wouldn't have been "The Greatest but we will never know for
> sure.
> But yes I, TC and Bob have no idea what it was like for them.
Yes, I think some of the lessons we hopefully learned from Viet Nam are
being remembered to avoid current problems, but they are very, very
different wars. Even good old lefty me will admit that in Viet Nam, we
weren't attacked first. If there was a conflict (and history is in conflict
on this point) it certainly wasn't a 9/11. That point alone makes this a
very different war. Well, it does for Afghanistan, anyway. Iraq is another
very complicated story. For some, there is a direct connection, for others
there isn't. I hope I said my peace a bit clearer than Ms. Kitt. Honestly,
when I read her statement I thought she had gotten into the cooking sherry
or something. I couldn't make heads nor tails about it. Since Bob is my
age (I don't know about TC), I think you can pretty much assume that he has
a good idea of what it was like in our country during those times. I
graduated from high school in 1969, which was right in the middle of the
roughest time there. Like Micki, I had friends who went and some who didn't
come back. I'm sure Bob is the same. This wasn't WWII, where the "enemy"
was clear and the press and country was 100%% (or so we believed) behind the
war. This was far uglier.
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Moni The Kid
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