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The whole thing with Bush being AWOL was cleared with records.
You mean those records that mysteriously vanished?
You think Kerry was wrong to speak against what he saw in Viet Nam when he got home? Too f'ucking bad.
The Viet Nam
conflict was different than any war we fought before or since. Those soldiers did not come home to a hero's welcome, like in WWII. There were no ticker tape parades, no cheering crowds. People mostly tried to let them attempt to slip quietly into their old lives and pretend they didn't know where those soldiers had been and what they had done. A lot of them came home to be spat on & be accused of being baby killers, etc..
To say this conflict was unpopular with the American people would be a gross understatement. Many of those soldiers saw and were forced to participate in horrors that shook them to the core or their psyches. When they came home, many couldn't ever bring themselves to speak of their experiences. Others raised their voices in protest.
They did their duty. They fulfilled their obligation. If
these men and women didn't earn the right to speak their mind about what was going on in Viet Nam, noone did.
So to those of you who dare to say those who served don't have the right to have their voices heard unless they agree with your political ideology, have a big helping of
GFY.
Yes, I remember those soldier boys coming home. Two of them were my brothers.