To show you how corrupt this ‘war’ was, at any given time during it, there was never more than 3% of the families and relatives of the Capital Hill US government in the war. The Senators and Reps sons just did not go to the carnage. It was a trully terrible mess and Kennedy would have ended it BUT THEY DIDN”T WANT THAT. (Another betrayal, another carnage)

I believe that Vietnam fractured our country into broken peices and there was no healing because there was no repentance on behalf of the gov. Here’s a kicker, the CIA did drug experiments on gi’s in Nam. When they finally had to high-tail it out of there a lot of those guys were left in their cages.

You see, this is what i try to get across. Your government dosn’t give a crap about the troops.
The government does not care about your future welfare, if you come home maimed or with your mind blown, they don’t even want to hear it.

It was just ‘classic’ when Boy-Bush went to see the guy who got burned up in the Pentagon, ya know after the fake plane crashed and left a ten foot hole, the betrayal was unsconscionable and that idiot Bush sat giving his fake condolences. So sorry your burned over 80% of your body, BUT YOUR A REAL BRAVE SOLDIER AND WE’RE GO’NA GET THOSE TERRAISTS.

It is not anyway for a free country to treat it’s free people, but we can see and understand that it is the way the totalitarian tyrants treat their people. We have had all the warnings for many years now.

We were standing by the kitchen sink as he told me of the damage. He leaned over the sink and vomited, then resumed talking to me as though nothing had happened. A sort of cold horror entered, and I began to understand the nature of war. He’d been a rageaholic, alcoholic whose memories of the sea battles in the Pacific during WWII often caused him to suddenly start and choke off a yell as he sat in his chair after dinner. He drank himself to death by age 47. My clearest memories were of him chugging bourbon direct from the bottle on the half-hour. To this day I am sure only my athletic ability to run like the wind saved me from beatings or perhaps even death, so out of control he was at times.

So today a childhood filled with abuse by a father living always on the edge of violence, raging at the slightest disturbance, has left me with a level of PTSD easily equal to that of any veteran. Only meditation combined with years of therapy has brought any healing, and an education as a psychotherapist working with vets understanding for my poor, damaged father. At age 67, I still weep at his memory. And there’s no doubt that the fact that my grandfather and great-grandfather were also combat veterans added their contributions, through my father, to my condition.

I’m no vet, but I have war in my very bones. Where are my veterans’ benefits? Where is my Purple Heart? I don’t blame vets, as they too are victims, but there are very many like myself, children of war, whose lives are filled with pain and sorrow. Perhaps more than there are veterans.

I do not think s/he offered a solution for the problem. Perhaps by pointing out to people that the symbol such as “defending US interests” is not a valid symbol we can change peole’s thinking.
The above ‘symbol’ symbolizes “defending interests of some people” and not all americans. Wars benefit or appear to benefit warlords more than any other layer of society.
Else there wld be no wars of aggression. “Enhancing US security” is another false-to-fact symbol.
The three k dead of the tow towers prove that it does not greaten security of all americans. And 13 slain US soldiers at fort hood also to prove it.
Add to that some ks soldiers maimed and about 6-7k soldiers losing their lives in afgh’n and iraq also prove it.
Returning soldiers commiting suicides and commiting mayhem also proves that the ‘symbols’ “defending US interests” and “enhancing security” have a fictive values.

Even US flag or any other is imbued with false symbolic value. So is “education”, “media”, “public service”, “serving one’s country”, “greatness of america” [and with ist slavery?], “hallowed constitution”, “best system of rule”, etcetc.
“Best rule ever” means that no empire or land had to date developed a rule for control of lower classes than US has. The control is indeed astounding and getting daily stronger. tnx