You are very welcome. For me, it touches on the conflicted feelings many people have when they don't support a war, but can't quite figure out a way to pay the personal social costs of fighting against it, which is actually the opposite of what this person is describing. This sermon is told from the perspective of a lay person in a congregation where the "paradigm of pacifism" is perceived by him as being unwelcoming to veterans.

I find that to be a very common misperception among people trying to do peace work, who fear the wrath of some Vietnam Vets for not caring about them. I personally don't have that fear of being judged, but perhaps that is because I'm Catholic, and despite there being a very strong anti-war movement in the Catholic community--there were leaders like the Berrigans, and others who were at the forefront of the anti-war movement--the Catholic community as a whole (there are always exceptions) didn't seem to have a problem welcoming the vets back. But there were many Catholic vets who refused to return to the Catholic community in New York where I lived, when they got home, my dad among them. But many of them have either returned to the church now, or at least to what my dad calls "the secular Catholic community"! ;-) Glad someone took the time to read it.