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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 560427" data-attributes="member: 12827">Perhaps, but I am sure neither did any of the 58,132 names on that wall, at least before THEY went over and fought a war that was never fought like we wanted to win it. For that matter, most of them had never even heard of Vietnam or even knew where it was on the map. I was a junior in HS during the last stages of that war. I told my father that if the war was still going on when I graduated I would enlist in the Infantry. We had several family friends come home in aluminum shipping crates. He was dead set against it, telling me I should go to college. And this was even though he had been prior military. I told him if I survived my year in that s***hole I would as soon as I got back. But fate intervened and we pulled out of Saigon and let the North overrun it before I graduated. All of those lives lost and forever changed FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Ok I will get off of my soap box. As it turned out I eventually did wind up in the Air Assault Infantry and did 23 years between active duty and reserves and made 4 trips to that desert s***hole known as the Middle East beginning with Desert Storm.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 560427, member: 12827"] Perhaps, but I am sure neither did any of the 58,132 names on that wall, at least before THEY went over and fought a war that was never fought like we wanted to win it. For that matter, most of them had never even heard of Vietnam or even knew where it was on the map. I was a junior in HS during the last stages of that war. I told my father that if the war was still going on when I graduated I would enlist in the Infantry. We had several family friends come home in aluminum shipping crates. He was dead set against it, telling me I should go to college. And this was even though he had been prior military. I told him if I survived my year in that s***hole I would as soon as I got back. But fate intervened and we pulled out of Saigon and let the North overrun it before I graduated. All of those lives lost and forever changed FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Ok I will get off of my soap box. As it turned out I eventually did wind up in the Air Assault Infantry and did 23 years between active duty and reserves and made 4 trips to that desert s***hole known as the Middle East beginning with Desert Storm. [/QUOTE]

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