[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

[Rebelo3]

I understand, and I salute our warriors; but it was never our war to win or lose. We could still be over there winning battles and running up body counts, but the other side was not going to run out of bodies and they were not going to give up. That was MACVJ2's conclusion in the Fall of '65, and later I read the the CIA had reached the same conclusion a year earlier. I went on some search and destroy operations with ARVN and I saw why those operations were later called search and AVOID.