BULLSHIT!!!! Vietnam was a battle in the larger Cold War. The Soviets were not going to get additional proxies without paying a price for it. We showed in Vietnam that we had the resolve to do just that. It's the pansy-assed anti-war protestors that have the blood of two million Cambodians on their hands, for forcing us out of Southeast Asia before we could finish the job. That having been said LBJ almost single-handedly destroyed this country along with McNamara for the way he micromanaged the war.
I am thinking back to that time.
Words fail to describe the fear we knew as children. The fear was real. We were on the brink several times I am aware of and who knows how many other times?
No, they did not die in vain. We may have lost that battle, but for the sacrifices of those on that wall, and all that came home we no longer had to live in fear.
Because of them, my children did not have to know that fear.
My first grandchild is due in December. We have a new generation of quiet heros making the ultimate sacrifice for what the left says is a "lie."
One day my grandchildren will look back on this war and say "It was not in vain."