[Rebelo3]

"This is just a rembrance of a soldier who gave his life so that we could all be free."

And a remberance of all the American boys who were killed or maimed as a result of the US Government sending them half way around the world to defend a corrupt Saigon Government which was created by the CIA, and to fight a war the Vietnamese would not fight.

I love my country but I have nothing but contempt for the US Government........The Government is NOT the country.

MACVJ2/ARVN CMD G2 Advisor '65-'66

I've been hearing this BS about fighting for OUR freedom for more than 35 years. Give me break!

[dcwusmc]

You have a good point. Nonetheless, our warriors were magnificent and deserve to be remembered for their efforts. An ungrateful nation and a duplicitous gooberment do not detract from their "last full measure of devotion" to their comrades in battle, for whom most everyone fought, even after realising that their gooberment had no intention of allowing us to win. Would that we had, as a nation, learned THAT lesson from Vietnam...
Had we learned it and its corollary lessons, perhaps we'd have fewer issues to divide us today.

Dave H, bump back to you, warrior!

DC Wright
PhuBai, RVN, '69
USMC