Letters to the Editor
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LWM . interesting to read..... sometimes a read makes me feel bulimic. Thanks anyway. Serious.
I just want to say, I saw photo's after the war about what you described and read/listened attentively. No one can find appropriate words, or say everything that's within us clearly. Much depends on the person in the audience. It may need to be said 1001 times ti finally HEAR.
I never saw any deliberate carnage, rape, hut-roof burning, torture, or severing of body parts. It did Not happen in every unit. Our First Cavalry Unit even allowed NVA to walk inside a ambush... sniff around to smell and detect grunts... and then walk hurriedly backward... To safely into the lush green jungle canopy. Not all soldiers are blood-lusty. The GOP are THAT! There is such a 'experience' as a naive soldier.... who's drafted, tricked, a National Guard youth, and maybe more often than we'd like to admit... There is a Noble soldier. booty? the story. Truth.
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I think I said my first sincere prayer in `Nam. The psychopath with a m-16 was very scary to listen to, and observe. Insane. A bomber was surly insane. My prayer was to keep me from depravity. In so many words.
Ellipsis? To speak is a struggle.
We may as well choose the truth.