"Bob Moore" wrote in message
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Jim Weir wrote

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

Yes, we did. We did not have a DIRECT interest, and we fought a half-assed
effort, but consider this:

http://www.techcentralstation.com/081204I.html

/excerpt
Fight When We Have To, Even If We Can't Win.



The Battle of Pearl Harbor was a lost cause. Korea was nearly one. And
Vietnam, given the constraints, was almost certainly a losing proposition.



Yet we fought in those places.



We fought at Bull Run, too. And we fought at Kasserine Pass, and Manila, and
Bastogne, and Hue, and on Flight 93. We even won at a couple of those
places, even though the cause seemed lost.


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I did my 'Nam time in 1967, only about 150 combat flying hours.
No medals to throw away when I got home, but I sure-as-hell
resigned my Naval Commision as soon as I returned state-side.
We had absolutely NO business being there.
I feel the same as Jim...if you weren't there, you have no right
to critisize anyone.