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Thread #64342   Message #1051438
Posted By: Bobert
10-Nov-03 - 11:29 PM
Thread Name: Request respectful Veterans Day Thread
Subject: RE: Request respectful Veterans Day Thread
Where have all the flowers gone...
Long time passin'...

Yeah, I graduated from Massanutten Military Academy in the height of thew Vietnam War and lots of my classmates went right into the Army and on to Vietnam. Eight of my class died. My cousin, Peter, came back without a leg. My 8th grade lab partner in junior high school, so messed up from killin' civilians that his life is a string of rehab programs....

And herer we are creatin' yet another generation of folks who will suffer from the effects of "depleted uranium" who won't get good treatment in their local VA hospitals... And we read that vets of this current war are holed up in camps without heat and not being treated for their ailments...

So, yeah, tomorrow, I'll reflect on the friends I've lost but I'll also reflect on the "Masters of War" who have sent my brothers ans sisters to the killing fields, only to turn their backs on them once the shootin' time is done...

Bobert