Boy has this gotten off of the boards topic.

Jim I love your posts on maintenance and have learned quite a bit from them
and hope to keep seeing them.

I'm of your generation. I went. I came home with a couple of scars
physically and some to the soul. My readings on the subject, both during my
military career (20 years) and since (reflectively) have indicated that what
I feel about the experiences are no different than the ones felt by those
who returned from the Korean War. The difference is that the Korean War
vets didn't turn on themselves in the national media.

To the ones who feel that there was something "special" about Vietnam that
messed up peoples heads, I had guys in my unit that changed drastically
after Grenada and / or Panama. Some people are just affected that way by
conflict. Why so many from Vietnam? Draft more people, create more
veterans, and the number of individuals with problems goes up.

Enough venting by both sides, I'm off to Virginia for a couple of weeks for
business (KORF) and I'm going to rent a 172 and go shoot some landings at
Kitty Hawk (KFFA).

Y'all have fun too.

Don

"Jim Weir" wrote in message
...
Then, Jay, you are a generation behind me. You didn't SWEAT your ass
going to
some rice paddy in Vietnam. You didn't LIVE your life hoping against hope
that
your draft board wouldn't haul your ass out of college and send you with a
rifle
to some country that you couldn't have given a rat's ass less about.

Me? I got lucky. My draft board thought that my work on Apollo was "in
the
national interest" and I got a deferment. The engineer on the next desk
wasn't
so lucky; he came home less his left arm.

You have absolutely no chops to criticize Kerry unless you were in the
Vietnam
draft mix. You were not. Shut the hell up.

Lots of us blasted the behavior of our country at that time. This country
was
wrong. We had no business being over there.

You wanna blast me? Come on. Take a piece of me. So far as I am
concerned you
are a stupid jackass that DIDN'T serve in the military, that WEREN'T
subject to
the draft, and have absolutely no CONCEPT of what either Vietnam, Iraq I
or Iraq
II are all about.

Jim



"Jay Honeck"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:


-No, Kerry was honorable until he went on TV blasting the behavior of his
-country and his fellow soldiers, while the Viet Nam war was in progress
and
-his comrades were still being held prisoner.

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com