so,I found an old letter my dad sent me from 2005

[w8liftinglady]

...right after my son was shipped to landstuhl with a leg injury.

He wrote"As the war progresses,I feel more and more helpless.I despise this administration more every day"
"Please don't let them forget the innocents who suffer,the civilians"

This from my dad,a lifer who spent most of my childhood in Nam...listening....
My dad hated what this country had become.

When are we going to change?

[NuclearDem]

1. Your dad's a true hero

If he's still around, tell him thank you from me :)

And we can start changing RIGHT NOW...all we need is for our Commander in Chief to grow a pair and order us out of Afghanistan. That's all we need...

[w8liftinglady]

3. My dad was one of those old-school repubs,like most lifers...

He still had issues with the way our military treated civilians,the way our troops were shit on,the way the civilians were assassinated and destroyed.I think a lot of Nam came back,and he couldn't believe we were seeing it again.
he died in 2008.I devote every few weeks to writing about either the soldiers or the innocents.
That's what he would have liked.

thanks for your kindness

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear w8liftinglady...

I'm sorry, but I don't think this country will ever change in its attitude towards war...

:hug:

[The Wizard]

4. For most of our lives

our country has been at war. Eisenhower warned us.

[DainBramaged]

5. Many of us here have burdens not completely understood by the masses of DU

My Dad spent WWII in North Africa and then the Pacific. He rarely said much of anything until the day he died. My Mom told me long after he'd often wake up at night with nightmares yelling, right up into the 70's when he finally stopped completely. He used to laugh at me when I was building model aircraft and painted them carefully; (from memory) "We painted them with mops, brooms, anything to slap paint on to kill the reflections, and the paint got blasted off after a couple of missions. We washed them in kerosene, poured oil right onto the ground, no one knew about pollution or really cared".


Within a few years, they will all be gone, all of the heroes of WWII, and soon after, the heroes of Korea and then Viet Nam.


And the Republican Party uses them for propaganda, and doesn't give a shit about them.