Veterans Day

[Eddies66]

Originally Posted by SStockDart

For the 658,000 than didn't make it home from Viet Nam, and to my 560,000 drafted brothers that served in Viet Nam....I would still take a bullet for ya. For the 50,000 draft dodgers that fled to Canada.....and Jane Fonda, rot in hell.

I think you meant 58,000 didn't return. Least we not forget the MIAs.

[jmcarter]

Having served in Southeast Asia (Medic with the 432nd Support Squadron) and visiting the Wall in DC I can't even fathom the 58,000 lives lost there or the countless others who returned a shadow of their former selves. Sadly, many of those never survived. The sheer numbers are lost on me, the sacrifice of each and every one of them means more to me than I can ever express.

Rightly so, "The Greatest Generation" is heralded because they fought the war that had to be won. Subsequent wars have been fought for less noble reasons but their warriors have a special nobility as well. So much is owed to all of our warriors.

[SStockDart]

Originally Posted by Eddies66

I think you meant 58,000 didn't return. Least we not forget the MIAs.

You are right......I had a typo...it is 58,600 something that did not return.