Well, I am cut from weaker cloth than the rest of the posters, but if I had 3 Purple Hearts, I would have gone home, too.
My kids are reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, I got an earfull on the trip to and from Florida, which sort of brought back recollections of the book, and I have the distinct impression that the guys Heller wrote about would have been thrilled to go home with three Purple Hearts (from WWII, not Vietnam, a much easier war to defend these days.)
Still and all, I would not have gone on and on about what a hero I was thirty something years later after I bugged out early. Just asking for trouble.
Kerry hung out with draft resisters, he doesn't know what's acceptable among the type of guy who did not think he had the right to resist. Very interesting sociological phenomenon. I post openly about being against the war at the time, and nobody gives me grief except Kerry supporters. Odd, that. |
