"Bill Kambic" wrote in message
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IMNSHO it's time we "got over" Viet Nam. Every Administration
involved in that fiasco from JFK on "screwed the pooch" multiple times.
The military services took years to recover, but that seems to have
happened. Maybe it's time for everybody else to realize "it's over."
Not that we should forget the lessons, but rather that we not be ruled
by those lessons, only.


At one time John Kerry agreed with you. It seems he's changed his mind.


" I am saddened by the fact that Vietnam has yet again been inserted into
the campaign, and that it has been inserted in what I feel to be the worst
possible way. By that I mean that yesterday, during this Presidential
campaign, and even throughout recent times, Vietnam has been discussed and
written about without an adequate statement of its full meaning."

"We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have
personally always believed that many served in many different ways. Someone
who was deeply against the war in 1969 or 1970 may well have served their
country with equal passion and patriotism by opposing the war as by fighting
in it. Are we now, 20 years or 30 years later, to forget the difficulties of
that time, of families that were literally torn apart, of brothers who
ceased to talk to brothers, of fathers who disowned their sons, of people
who felt compelled to leave the country and forget their own future and turn
against the will of their own aspirations?"

Senator John Kerry, Jan 30, 1992