Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It seems to me that we all owe a huge debt of gratitude to those who died for our freedom, a memorial is a fitting reminder and it is appropriate to reflect on their sacrifice from time to time and to remind younger people that there is nothing glamourous about war at a time when they seem to think movies are an accurate reflection of history. If it is true that Viet Nam veterans were outcast this is appalling. Surely soldiers are just doing what they are told by the self serving politicians. Frank On 16 Apr 2004, at 22:40, Jeffery Smith wrote: > Sander, > > Unlike WWI or WWII, the Viet Nam war was unique. There was an enormous > outcry against the war, from pacifists, from college students, and > from friends and family of the soldiers. This put the soldiers in a > very awkward position of being pariahs when they returned. There are > innumerable Viet Nam vets who have been permanently scarred by having > been outcasts after a war that virtually nobody wanted to admit to. I > lost friends I had grown up with, and know others who are still > terribly adversely affected by the experience. I don't think that a > monument to their sacrifice is at all excessive. > > JLS > > >> The question is: where is this world going. Not on one side of the >> Atlantic, on both! And monuments; are they important? >> >> Sander >> Amsterdam >> Holland > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >