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Originally Posted by Mardelin  Yes, war is hell. But, I can't forgive the way our men were treated when they came back from Nam. Some were drafted to do their countries bidding and many came back after being tortured, beaten men. I lost two cousins because of the Nam War. They didn't die there, but maybe they should have. They never recovered mentally from their experiences. |
Oh, no way is the treatment of the returning vets justified. I think a lot of it began as frustration over our government not having the will to actually win the war. Of course, the soldiers unjustly became a target of that frustration.
I have never talked to a single vet that thought the war was unwinnable. And then you see the domino effect after we pulled out of the area. Pol Pot's genocide in Cambodia was, IMO, a direct result of our withdrawal.