As A Vet I Question The Value Of My Service And If It Was Worth It

[LuvNewcastle]

23. I never had to serve, but I felt the same about both of the Iraq wars and

most of the other conflicts we've been involved in for the last 40 years or so. I was a young child during the last few years of Vietnam, and I don't know much about it.

Regardless of all the moral questions surrounding the Vietnam War, you did your duty and didn't pass it along to someone else. That's a lot more than can be said about plenty of others. I'm not really judging the people who were able to get out of their duty in that war; I have no idea what I would've done if I'd been faced with the same choices.

But none of that matters when it comes down to it. What matters is what you did. You might not be proud of it, but you did what your country asked of you. What's heartbreaking about Vietnam is that we keep repeating it. Too many people in charge aren't doing what you did when called upon to serve their country. They're serving themselves and their masters. I wish we had a lot more people like you in charge, people who just quietly serve and do their duty.