i sure feel sorry for you

you go on explaining about your family this and that so they could help people like us-first of all, we helped you. we didn't even want to fight. in our lives, we already saw freedom and peace but the U.S. came and asked for our help, since we lived in the mountain area, we knew it more than anyone. the U.S. said stuff like, "if you help us, you can come to the U.S." and all that good opportunities stuff...it was like a bribe of some sort due to the fact that we were never interested in wars. we always wanted peace but you came, the U.S. and convinced us we were fighting for our freedom. I mean, the U.S. could have just left the communist alone, but they wanted to fight the communist-not us. your family, friends, cousins, all have their names on a great wall, but what of the lives we lost when we have no connection to the U.S. but in helping them fight their war? If you did fight for our freedom like you say, how come no one knows who we are? DO YOU GIVE US ANY THANKS FOR THE LIVES WE LOST IN HELPING YOU FIGHT THE COMMUNISTS? We lost everything and were called traitors because we helped you fight them. You should be glad you still have a place to call home, we lost ours. And that's when we left the once great peaceful mountains of Laos, crossed the Mekong River, and finally to the U.S., after they abandoned us. And now you go on saying that you risked your lives, isn't it true that the U.S. drafted their people? We didn't draft you guys to come HELP US FOR OUR FREEDOM and all that, it was never about our freedom, we were mere puppets in the palms of the U.S. hands, they took us into their war, we didn't want to be in the war. So don't go around saying all that stuff. If you want someone to blame for your loss, blame the great U.S. for drafting you in the first place. It is already sad to say that I am thankful that the U.S. came asking for our help because we would have never been here in the U.S. but to see so many lives of my people die, and then be blamed for YOUR PEOPLES' LOSSES is all so ridiculous, we were seen as traitors, the communists hunted us down like dogs, all because we chose to help America, who promised us OUR FREEDOM in the land of the free. Funny, isn't it? We still aren't free. We are constantly blamed at for the loss of Vietname vets. When all we ever did was wanted to live peacefully...