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upaloopa

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5. As a Vietnam vet I have much trouble with the

Reply to Scuba (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 11:06 AM

Oct 2014

concepts of valor and honor. To me war is mankind at its worst. Life loses most of it's value since in combat it is kill or be killed. And even more when you sacrifice little when the killing is done as was the case of the early B-52 raids in South Vietnam and Cambodia, there is no valor or honor. I think words like that are for use by those who were not in the war to somehow paint a more acceptable picture of the killing.
Deep down I hate those words.

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