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Old June 14th 04, 01:21 PM
Billy Beck
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"George Z. Bush" wrote:

Michael Wise wrote:


One interesting thing I've noted is that Vietnam vets who fought
hand-to-hand combat seem to overwhelmingly be far less retroactively
gung-ho on the war than those who flew fixed wing far above. Why do you
suppose that is?


Maybe because they were fighting different kinds of wars. They each had their
own peculiar and different kinds of hell, but generally speaking, the one aloft
was a whole lot cleaner and smelled a whole lot better than the one on the
ground.


Uhm.. what the hell are you two doing here? Isn't there an
infantry group where you could go hang?


Billy

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