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1. I am a Vietnam veteran. Every year on Memorial Day I am reminded that I did not fight for our

country’s freedom. That is an idea concocted by civilians to somehow justify that war, the same is true about Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

But I get thank you for your service messages from family and I don’t respond much.

Now we are making up bull shit about Iran just like the Gulf of Tonkin and the Iraq WMDs.

When civilians stop being gung ho about war then we can thank cooler heads having prevailed.

WWII was different I think because freedom of Europe was at stake but none of our wars since have been waged for our freedoms or anybody else’s. All have been wars of opportunity and poor boys and now girls are the grist that is used up to gain the goals of someone who feels no remorse about it.

So every Memorial Day I have this sadness that we think there is good and glory in war. There is neither and it is not a good thing to act as if is.