Alex, you really con't understand do you? My anger is toward all those who started and continued that war. I don't WANT to forget because if I do then my friends will be forgotten and they deserve some memorial other than that black slab in Washington. The anger comes when people try to excuse Fonda and Kennedy and Johnson and McNamara and the rest.
Yes, it happened 40 years ago and no, I can't change it now . Thank you for your permission to remember and feel anger.
As for the rest of your post, Uriah Heep couldn't have said it better.
Barry, I'm sorry you feel you have lost your brother. Men are not drafted or assigned to the SEALs, they volunteer and have to WANT to be there.
I was in the Amphibs and I've worked with them all: SEALs, UDT, Marine Recon, Rangers, it takes a special breed to do those jobs, they have to have something going in that makes them different. I've only known a few who got out whole.
I can't remember any of it without remembering all of it. I'd like to see all of them pay for what they did. But that won't happed in my lifetime. Maybe history will sentence them as they deserve but if we who were there don't keep our memories alive to pass on, then the history books will only tell the story of the powerful moneyed men.
So although Jane Fonda is more a figurehead than anything else, she serves as a symbol of ALL the others, the Westmorelands and the rest.As we remember her, we remember them.
So it's not tripe Barry. It's a part of history; a rallying cry like "Remember the Maine", of the photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima or the dead at Kent State.
You have your anger, I have mine. Our reasons are not so far apart.

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