I don't know how you feel with respect to Vietnam but my older friends told me about it..
My father did know how you felt when he came back to Travis and Scott after TDY..
He cried endlessly when the flagged was burned on TV..
Escorting fallen bodies home broke him and he went back to drink..
I'm bitter as hell inside--he should still be alive today..
As for amnesty, those who went to Canada should have had to serve at least two years of state-side duty..
I hated the 2S deferment that took my older friends to Vietnam since they didn't go to college..
I hated punks like Quayle, Limbaugh, Cheney, and especially that phony ****head Nugent..
I was 1H for 7 years starting in '72 and knew Kissinger would end the draft in an election year..
And, I didn't vote for Carter either time..He was a ****ing disaster but I hated Ted scum kennedy even more..
Dad was pissed at Ford for taxing his government pensions..Now you've got my eyes soaked..
It's about ###### time that Americans took back the Democrat Party
that was hijacked during the 1970's by the fringe of the radical left. (New Left)
Too bad Clinton ruined his legacy by acting as a latter-day Kennedy..
Maybe the neoconservatives who were the JFK/LBJ liberals back during the 1960's will leave the GOP tent and go back under the Democrat tent ?
They will now become independents and libertarians, which is fine with me..
I have no problem with Americans taking back control of the Democrat Party that was hijacked by radical socialist.
We aren't the only party that needs taken back..The new conservative women in our party are tough ass nails..
If I weren't backed stabbed in the back by the Democrat Party who sent me to a war in Vietnam, I would probably be a register Democrat today.
I put it on LBJ for not trying to win the war but I'm sure his advisors were the real problem..However, I don't know the secrets like you do..The fact that he drank himself to death and died during Nixon's first term tells me enough..I was 14 when Nixon beat HHH with Wallace's help .