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and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam."

So instead of "Didja know John Kerry was in Vietnam ?" we have "Didja know Mitt Romney thought he was in Vietnam ?"

[Mogger]

and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam."

While I am for Tancredo, I can understand Romney's feelings on it, if they are true on this matter.

I wanted to "get in on" Vietnam, but by the time I enlisted it was over, and I enlisted at 17.

In retrospect. I'm just as glad I didn't, mainly due to the lack of creature comforts you endure in a war zone.