Spaw, that is just the irony----how can a "free" country have political prisoners? I also have great respect for those who went......whether they wanted to or not. And for those who did not come home, and for those who came home maimed, whether in body or spirit.

I do know that I, personally could not have born VietNam. I am female, so exempt from the US draft, but I would have been one of those that committed suicide by enemy.....as soon as I could have. Look, even little leeches send me round the bend, let alone flying body parts........IF I had come home, I would have been spiritually maimed beyond redemption, as are many that I know.

I do not consider it cowardice to stand up for beliefs, or to just plain admit to fear.........(Haven't we done VietNam before?.......Was it such a seminal event in all our lives that we have to keep coming back to it? Or that so many of us are so ambivilent about the whole thing? And wasn't it LB Johnson who started the whole mess?)