From Jen, on Mon, 07 Jul 1997 11:32:35 GMT (in response to: WHOM DO YOU THANK FOR WHAT?)
Seems to be that you may have forgotten that some of those "bloodstains" were from American blood. Do you honestly think that most of our boys out there WANTED to be there? That that was their idea of a good time?! Going out in the jungle, making "contact", watching their best friends/their brothers die, wondering if they are next? Hell, yes, I thank those who were there. Not for killing people, but for doing what their country told them to do. For having the courage to go and not deserting, not going AWOL. And before you state it...let me point out that no, people didn't HAVE to join the military. However, they did. And I'm grateful for that, because if God forbid, one day if a country starts to get daring, and decides to try to take on the U.S., then these people who joined are protecting us. If the situation was on the other foot...if WE were the country that was "invaded", do you not think that the same things that you state would have happened to us? I think they would, after all, look at Pearl Harbour. Or does that not count because we weren't having war on our actual soil? We've pointed out time and time again, war is wrong, killing is wrong, the atrocities are wrong...but I'll say yet again, don't judge the men who risked their lives and just tried to come "home" again (for all the good that did them with people like you putting them down).
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