I was a bomb maker and delivery of bombs to the flight line that were about to be dropped in Vietnam at the beginning of a ten year bombing campaign called "Rolling Thunder." I am not proud of it because at that point they were bombing railroad stations and the sort, but I was young, and following orders. I flew into Saigon once on the way home, but I am not a combat veteran.
However, I worked for years afterwords for and with Veterans of the Vietnam War. I helped them get assistance from the VA who had been ignoring them up until about 1980. Then slowly the VA came around and started to really act like they cared about Veterans.
Two of my best friends in the World are Veterans that served in Vietnam. I walked the length of Vietnam and depth of Vietnam with Combat Veterans helping them deal with addiction and PTSD and assisting them in getting mental, emotional and phsyical treatment. It was a screwy war that killed three million Vietnamese and 60,000 Troops.
War is the enemy!
2007-07-29
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