Reply #4: Like I said in an earlier post, I urinated on my Arizona Ash tree in protest...

[AnArmyVeteran]

I love trees so I would never cut it down. But out of protest I did go to the back yard and pissed on Arizona Ash tree. If I could I would go to Arizona to protest, but this was easier. And I wouldn't be forced to 'show my papers'.

BTW, I'm a Canadian who served in the US Army. After basic and while waiting at the military base to go to a top secret missile school I had to go back to Houston to swear allegiance to the US and become a naturalized US citizen. Otherwise I would not have been able to get into the missile school. But they would have sent me to Vietnam because US citizenship wasn't required to be eligible to go there to be killed. I know, my best friend Brian joined the Marines and he went to Vietnam. He cracked up because of the violence he was exposed to. He also came back with a cocaine addiction. He died in 1994 of lung cancer that I'm quite sure was the result of being exposed to Agent Orange. It's sad, but even though that war killed him, his name will never be on the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Thousands of other soldiers who either committed suicide or succumbed to diseases after being exposed to toxins like Agent Orange won't be on The Wall either. Nor will they be included in the war casualty list, although they were killed by the war just the same.

Have you ever seen the "Moving Wall"? It used to travel around the country. It is a small version of the real wall. When it came to my home town and I walked by it I broke down seeing people's names I knew. If you have a chance, go see it, or better still go to see the real WAll.

All the best...