aem wrote:
> 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.

My cousin was a Green Beret chopper pilot in Viet Nam when he had fly
some visiting blow hard Congressman around to see the action. He
repeatedly told the Congressman it was not a good day to fly... a
dangerous day in fact.
He was shot in the air by enemy fire when the Congressman insisted.
He followed "orders" yet would you say he was stupid Jill? Lucky for him
he lived to tell about it instead of having some letter written to his
mother by someone who had no clue what really happened.
Goomba