James T Thomas
Member
I was reading another site earlier, and the subject was a cop who was killed by a "Vietnam" veteran with an AK-47. Alleged.
I am a V.Vet, and still carry the bad feelings that so much of our country held towards the returning home veterans at the time. You younger readers may be aware of some of the protest history, but the real feeling of it is very personal, at least to me.
Remember the Clint Eastwood movie, "Dirty Harry, The Enforcer?" The criminals were "Vietnam Veterans," who wore the pigtail sweatbands and Army -Navy store jackets, etc. Although just Hollywood fiction, the film did depict some of the sentiment of the public from the time. For years afterward, one vet after another was going beserk, committing crims all across the U.S. as headlined in the NEWS.
Now it turns out that most of these vets, were not legitimate at all, or the very few who had been there were often rear eschelon troops; clerk -typists, supply, that kind of thing. There were a few; very few, who were front line troops who had actually seen combat.
So it is with the story of the "Vet" who killed the cop with an AK.
He may have been a vet, but I will reserve judgement, until his background is legitimately verified.
As the current soldiers return home from the Iraq war, do not be suprised to read from time to time (the media has not changed from what I can see),
how this vet or that vet has done some horrendous crime. You can count on also viewing or hearing a supplamenatary article on the President or VP or Sect. of Defense, and how decietful, war promoting; well you know, how they will be made to appear by some "producer."
And please, give the older Vietnam Vets the benefit of the doubt when you come across some aricle like I read tonight. We were not some rag bag sloppy bums like so many of the war movies depict. Most were well disciplined and hard fighting soldiers like the brave young troops our nation is now
producing again.
God bless America!
I am a V.Vet, and still carry the bad feelings that so much of our country held towards the returning home veterans at the time. You younger readers may be aware of some of the protest history, but the real feeling of it is very personal, at least to me.
Remember the Clint Eastwood movie, "Dirty Harry, The Enforcer?" The criminals were "Vietnam Veterans," who wore the pigtail sweatbands and Army -Navy store jackets, etc. Although just Hollywood fiction, the film did depict some of the sentiment of the public from the time. For years afterward, one vet after another was going beserk, committing crims all across the U.S. as headlined in the NEWS.
Now it turns out that most of these vets, were not legitimate at all, or the very few who had been there were often rear eschelon troops; clerk -typists, supply, that kind of thing. There were a few; very few, who were front line troops who had actually seen combat.
So it is with the story of the "Vet" who killed the cop with an AK.
He may have been a vet, but I will reserve judgement, until his background is legitimately verified.
As the current soldiers return home from the Iraq war, do not be suprised to read from time to time (the media has not changed from what I can see),
how this vet or that vet has done some horrendous crime. You can count on also viewing or hearing a supplamenatary article on the President or VP or Sect. of Defense, and how decietful, war promoting; well you know, how they will be made to appear by some "producer."
And please, give the older Vietnam Vets the benefit of the doubt when you come across some aricle like I read tonight. We were not some rag bag sloppy bums like so many of the war movies depict. Most were well disciplined and hard fighting soldiers like the brave young troops our nation is now
producing again.
God bless America!
