And I beg to differ, I think that most of them did. My friend, Ed Redifer, died last March,at age 103. He was the last survivor from this county of the Great War. 3 weeks before he died, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor, (sorry, I can't spell it in French) by the Ambassador. Yes, the Ambassador came here to Noplace,Wyoming, to give this to him, for helping to give France a chance at freedom for the future.

My dad was on the first ship into Yokahama harbour after Hiroshima, and I garuntee you, he knew what he was fighting for. He could have gotten an ag deferrment, or a sole survivor deferrment, but he joined at 17, lying about his age.

My brother is in the US Army now, and he knows why he is there. It is not about economic policies, it is not about political policies, it IS about basic human rights. The right to live, the right to be free from fear, the right to play without land mines, the right to speak your mind without fear of fatal reprisal.

I do not, and will not say, that the US has always been, and will always, be RIGHT, I know better than that. We have been involved in unjust/incorrect causes in the past, and no doubt will be in the future. I know that not everybody in the world wants to live in the US, but as my Cuban expatriate Spanish teacher said, "This is the best place in the world, right now. And I should know, I did years of research before I decided to come here, rather than somewhere else." (My own personal choices would be Canada and Austrailia, not necessarily in that order)

I will concede that probably "most" of the VietNam people were not sure what they were fighting for, but then, was anybody at that time? Let's not start yet another VietNam thread over this, OK?