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Originally posted by honeychile
Because it's not.
If you haven't seen someone hit the ground when they simply hear a helicopter, or go through the tests for Agent Orange or some of the other diseases picked up in Viet Nam (and Desert Storm, for that matter), you don't really understand.
Twenty years after my brother returned from Viet Nam, he was driving me out to the airport, and I made the mistake of asking him something about Viet Nam. He had to pull over from the anxiety - and I will never tell what he told me about it. As I said earlier, most Viet Nam veterans were against the war when they returned.
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I would hazard to say that most vets are against war on principle because they understand the horror that is war. In my group we have people that still after ten years refuse to step of concrete because of an ingrained fear of mines...... and certain smells or sounds can set them off (myself included).
So Kerry came back and protested a war that he thought was wrong... He fought in theory to defend that right, so there should be no problem in him exercising it.