At the time , yes, I believed it was a noble cause and continued to believe such until 20 or 30 years ago
Now I think it was one of the biggest mistakes in our history
PS: your choices suck
Now I think it was one of the biggest mistakes in our history
PS: your choices suck
I had a 2A - college deferment. Then got thrown out of BC, was called for my medical and got a 1Y deferment because I had eczema real bad at that time. I was actually looking forward to serving. THere was a guy at BC who I admired who quit school to serve. I thought that was admirable. I wanted to follow in his footsteps. Not to be. Then they changed the draft system and went to numbers drawn. I got something like 360. That was a number that would never be reached.
Later I understood Viet Nam to be a war of containment, to prevent the spread of communism. I thought that was pretty dumb. If American boys go to war they should go to war to win. There should be a plan of succession and the soldiers should return home. I don't believe in no plan of succession - Iraq. And I don't believe in nation building - Afghanistan. But I would have always served if I was able.
Later I understood Viet Nam to be a war of containment, to prevent the spread of communism. I thought that was pretty dumb. If American boys go to war they should go to war to win. There should be a plan of succession and the soldiers should return home. I don't believe in no plan of succession - Iraq. And I don't believe in nation building - Afghanistan. But I would have always served if I was able.
[FONT=Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif]The first sentence ranks right there with the checks in the mail and I won't cum in your mouth.
The 2nd is spot on.
The 3rd is what made me the skeptically sarcastic old fart that I am today.
The only thing it did was change me from a juvenile delinquent into a man but I suspect that
would have happened eventually.
I didn't enlist, I got drafted. My 3 choices were go on lam, make little rocks out of big rocks
or go to Nam.
It was what it was. I'm just happy to be alive. [/FONT]
My dad was at fort benning late 60s . He enlisted tried to dodge was given ultimatum and zoom gone to Cameron bay stationed with the rocks . When he got back to the states had a great job with the army living in Atlanta as a sports reporter got to go to a lot of events . I will never forget the story he told me about his first floor apartment in Atlanta getting robbed . The police officer told my dad next time shoot him and pull him through the window . Oh how things have changed
[FONT=Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif]The way it worked was you could enlist for 4 years and not go to Nam. Or you got drafted for 2 but Nam
was where you went. 12 months in Nam and the other 12 training and stateside. I spent 14 months in Nam.
What they don't tell you is if you end up in the stockade it didn't count as time served.
Several guys I went to high school with enlisted and ended up in Germany for 3 years. 2 years is a long
time when you're 18 so I rolled the dice.
Cameron Bay was about as safe as it got over there. [/FONT]
