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erronis

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17. Tears of sadness for the unneeded loss of lives, criminal war for political purposes

Wed Jul 31, 2019, 05:48 PM

Jul 2019

I stumbled my way out of conscription through ineptitude in the war machine. I was ready to move to Sweden but there was a CO form I didn't fill out and I was forgotten. Perhaps I'm still conscripted/AWOL.

I want to offer thanks to Maya Lin and the courageous folks that allowed her monument to reflect the dark truth of the murder of the US soldiers. I wish we had a similar, much larger monument to those innocent and perhaps patriotic Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians and others that our war machine targeted - all in the name of corporate profits.

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OH!! That will leave a mark! Tweet of the day [View all] Roland99 Jul 2019 OP

Cadet Bone Spurs finally made it to VN. keithbvadu2 Jul 2019 #1

He was in no hurry to get there. keithbvadu2 Jul 2019 #2

Visiting The Viet Nam Memorial leftieNanner Jul 2019 #3

One of my HS classmates is on the wall. keithbvadu2 Jul 2019 #4

We once saw an extremely moving exhibit of items left at the Wall happybird Jul 2019 #7

Oh wow thanks for sharing that Roland99 Jul 2019 #9

Hard to walk from one end to the other without crying. calimary Jul 2019 #10

What a beautiful reflection calimary leftieNanner Jul 2019 #11

calimary, your reply leaves me speechless. real Cannabis calm Jul 2019 #14

Tears of sadness for the unneeded loss of lives, criminal war for political purposes erronis Jul 2019 #17

Two close friends from high school are on that wall. I say "high school" because FailureToCommunicate Jul 2019 #5

Trump did go to the 9/11 site left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 #6

During that time, the streets around WTC were all blocked off FakeNoose Jul 2019 #13

Absolutely HockeyMom Jul 2019 #20

My niece and her husband had an apartment in Battery Park City (2 blocks from WTC) FakeNoose Jul 2019 #21

Arghhhhhhh! smirkymonkey Jul 2019 #18

My neighbor's name is on the Wall... Talitha Jul 2019 #8

Bone spurs. In his head. Nitram Jul 2019 #12

Facts are a giant boomerang bucolic_frolic Jul 2019 #15

Trump@GroundZero alterfurz Jul 2019 #16

OMG this is great! FakeNoose Jul 2019 #22

Viet Nam, Ground Zero, and a salad bar. CaptYossarian Jul 2019 #19