We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam

Amazon ^ | 7/19/08

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET

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CLARITY =

They are still soldiers

http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66978

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NEVER FORGET

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Thanks.
BTTT

[do the dhue]

True American Heroes: Ronnie Guyer with Lt. Gen Hal Moore (ret)

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...what I do know is that, as a young kid in school, I used to watch the newsreels awestruck and amazed, every Wednesday afternoon after lunch hour, of what you guys were doing in Vietnam.

I think that, perhaps, the newsreels had the opposite effect on me than what our teachers wanted them to have: they were hippies and commies thru-and-thru.[some things never change] Anyrate, I left those brainwashing sessions with the firm conviction that soldiers were Good Guys and Heroes.

I think that Galloway and The Hack, David Hackworth, for that matter, were and are stuck in a 40 year old mind set,

I used to enjoy reading The Hack, it is a shame that he’s dead now. He was always onto the “perfumed Princes” and styled himself as a champion of the average soldier. That said, he didn’t seem to have too much nice to say for the modern army. I recall a couple of his articles that were fairly blistering over modern entrance requirements and training standards.

It isn’t that Gi’s, Diggers, and Squadies haven’t done the job they are paid for it is the Bagless Pols.

Politicians these days are all ball-less wonders and they seem Hell-bent on snatching Defeat from the jaws of Victory. It makes no sense to me: why would anyone want to see their country lose a war??

Your words are timeless, and need be repeated often, with emphasis! Oh, and I strongly identify with your first thought, but I was an 'old' student at the time, and an even older 'soldier' when I got there as a PFC. Here's hoping that the Obama cabinet doesn't 'impress us' with their version of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!