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Vietnam Vets

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by PMZQ, Nov 19, 2008.

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  1. PMZQ

    PMZQ Banned

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    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 ...
     
  2. FinsPensFan

    FinsPensFan Professional Slacker

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    I still feel bad for the ways that these soldiers were treated. They deserved to be treated like their Fathers coming home from WWII.
     
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  3. Ultra

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    agreed
     
  4. sking29

    sking29 What it takes to be cool

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    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).
     
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    Nicely put
     
  6. Crappy Tipper

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    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.
     
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  7. Coral Reefer

    Coral Reefer Premium Member

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    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.
     
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  8. Crappy Tipper

    Crappy Tipper AKA Hero13

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    I doubt many people could realize the memories that wall would bring forward for men like your father.
     
  9. FinsPensFan

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    Thank your Father for me.
     

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