This kid wasn't even born before the VN war ended.
I guess somebody's gotta tell the story, Doug
That's probably a good thing, since I can't find it within myself to make much of it. By the time I left that place my perceptions of the world and especially the United States Government had been turned on their head. I felt like we were the bully on the block and didn't give a good shit about the harm being imposed upon everyone.
I'm fascinated by the humanities ability to forget or ignore events regardless of how tragic. Living in an insane world is justification for ignoring it.
My daughter is nearly 50 years old and until I signed up for VA Health she didn't know I had ever been in the military. (I signed up in 2018 at the request of my boss and then avoided the place like the plague for 5 years because of the constant push to get vaccinated. This is not to say that the VA Health System hasn't been a blessing because it has been very wonderful. The upper level management are incompetent while the worker bees are exceptional.