We honor you....you paid a heavy price. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE9TNG8IQNI&feature=related]YouTube - The Marmalade - Reflections of My Life - Vietnam Vets[/ame] Reflections of my Life also happens to be my favorite song of all time. It's melancholy for sure, and very haunting, but much of my life has been that way. Lyrics The changing of sunlight to moonlight Reflections of my life Oh how they fill my eyes The greetings of people in trouble Reflections of my life Oh how they fill my eyes Oh my sorrows Sad tomorrows Take me back to my own home Oh my crying (Oh my crying) Feel I'm dying, dying Take me back to my own home I'm changing, arranging, I'm changing, I'm changing everything Everything around me The world is a bad place A bad place A terrible place to live Oh but I don't wanna die ...
I still feel bad for the ways that these soldiers were treated. They deserved to be treated like their Fathers coming home from WWII.
I agree, no matter how much you may disagree with what a war stands for taking it out on the troops is the dumbest thing you can do. Those men and women sign up (and in the case of major wars are drafted) and are brave enough to give their lives. If you can disrespect that I don't understand how you can live with yourself. Troops, soldiers, or whatever you want to call them are the people that I personally put on the highest plateau of anyone in our country or in any country for that matter (in other words I respect them more than anyone else).
I had the luck to be in D.C. (Same week the sniper was caught) and had the opportunity to walk the Vietnam memorial wall. A whole generation of men were on that wall. Very somber to see the old veterans taking rubbings of the names of fallen friends. It was such a distinct feeling that you could almost feel the presence of the spirits of the soldiers around.
Great thread here. Speaking of The Wall, my father, a Marine Vietnam vet, never was able to bring himself to visit it. A piece of him always wanted to go yet another piece of him absolutely refused to go and face it.
I doubt many people could realize the memories that wall would bring forward for men like your father.