After they come home they will continue to be the excellently prepared and totally professionally members of the armed forces of the United States of America that they trained to be.

Please don't confuse them with a bunch of scared conscripts that your nation sent of to Indo-China, poorly trained, less than well motivated, hopelessley, inadequately lead and totally undermined at home. Your servicemen in Vietnam were not defeated by General Giap's Viet Cong but by their own citizens sitting safe, fat, dumb and happy back in the good ol' US of A.

The servicemen and women currently on active service out in Iraq and Afghanistan, know full well why they are there, they totally belive in the reason why they are there and they take great pride in the fact that they will complete their mission, or at least hand it on to others in such a state that the mission will be completed.

If anyone has bothered to read BBC news currently pouring forth from Helmand Province in Southern Afghanistan, you will read of the escalating violence and the dramatic rise in the number of casualties and deaths. The only thing that the BBC, for reasons best known to themselves, has not expanded upon is that the deaths including the dramatic rise that they hasten to report is amongst the ranks of the Taleban, obviously it does not suit the agenda of the totally impartial BBC - Totally impartial - MY ARSE.