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To: Richnorth who wrote (83359)	3/17/2002 2:14:00 PM
From: ubetcha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 117095

"The American fighters in Vietnam were, for the major part, unwilling fighters. They were recruited from a bunch of spoilt kids. (Recall that the war came on the heels of the free love hippie era with its mantra of "Make Peace Not War" and peace signs were ubiquitous)". "Many of the American veterans saw very limited action! (The moment they were wounded, they were shipped home as war heroes! Col. Colin Powell himself came back soon after he fell over a punji stick). Many often fired their guns against imaginary or unseen enemies in the dark a la Schwarzenegger and his men in the movie, "Predator I". Some pilots dropped their bombs on "imaginary" targets so as to return to base and be seen to have apparently dropped them on intended targets where the flak would have been heaviest. Some Americans were so "enterprising/entreprenuerial" that they smuggled heroin home in the emptied torsos and abdomens of their dead comrades. (This monkey business was uncovered at Hawaii where the body-bags were rerouted.) Many GIs had lots of time playing cards in their tents and they often rushed out to "jack off" or "jerk off" with the help of the big warm raindrops that fell on their dicks, while others went to town to make war babies and/or catch the clap and whatnot. A good number of American prisoners-of-war complained they were badly treated. But little did they realize they were "softies"/spoilt kids who could not adapt to living under the same harsh conditions as their Viet captors. A captured GI once puked and threw away a bowl of gruel that had a boiled hairy monkey hand in it. His captors picked up that hand and ate it with gusto!" These are your own words, and yes I did take them out of context. I copied them from your own words. If you want to repost the whole post again, so be it. If this is not being critical of both the war and those who fought in it, than I guess that I cannot read. I served with soldiers that had actually "asked" to go. We and they were not spoiled children who just went over to war to play. We fought together, and protected each other. Were there atrocities committed. Of course! Were there wrongs done. Of course! Is War always perfect. Of course not! As I said before---go see the movie and then tell me that what all the soldiers did was to smoke dope, smuggle dope, and act like the "hippies" back home with free Love in Vietnam. Terry