"aem" > wrote in message
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> jmcquown wrote:
> >
> > Doubtless you have more military experience than my father who was a 30
year
> > Marine and retired a full bird Colonel. Yeah, he really enjoyed writing
> > letters of condolence to the folks back home; it was one of his fondest
> > duties. He saw enough action, sweetums, since he was shot twice. And
> > sadly, those teenagers sent to Nam were nothing but stupid... they
didn't
> > want to be there (who did?) but they also didn't know how to follow
orders.
>
> That is an outrageous and an outrageously stupid thing to say. More
> than 59,000 young American men were killed over there, some of them my
> very good friends. Some of them for not following orders, I'm sure,
> others for following stupid orders, and many others because that's what
> happens to young men in war. You should shut the **** up because you
> don't know what the **** you're talking about.
> >
> > Dad rarely talks about 'Nam but when he does he talks about those boys
who
> > pointedly ignored an order and got their butts killed because of it.
>
> I seriously doubt you understand what your Dad has said about his
> experiences. I'd hate to think he was so self-deluded as to think that
> those men would be alive if they'd only followed his orders. I was
> with the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne, and we thought Marines were
> very brave combat soldiers who could have done much better with smarter
> leadership. -aem
>

Well said. Jill is such an arrogant idiot. To disagree with a war is one
thing,
but there is no excuse for dishonoring the men who did their duty, some of
whom gave their lives.