Well, yeah, LH, you have hit the proverbial nail on the head... I would bet that John McCain will get upwards of 80% of the Vietnam vet votes for the reasoning you have laid out as...

...Vietnam continues to take its toll on US...

But nothing happens in the past so voting for McCain thinking that he will have "Johnny come marchin' home again" in victory to the cheers of all is a pipe dream not founded in reality...

Johnny ain't comin' marchin' home again... That was a long time ago and now is now... I'm sorry for all my brothers who even today are so messed up over Vietnam and I'm sorry for the generation that is doing the brunt of the fighting in Iraq because when I look at the burned out Nam vets today I see these folks in a couple decades dealing with the same situation...

B~