This has been one of my points from the getgo. I'm of the age that I just missed getting drafted for Vietnam. I think my age was the last actually have a draft lottery. But after numbers were assigned, nothing else went thru.

But my association with Vietnam was still very real. Vets started showing up where I went to school who had enrolled in college thru the GI bill. You could tell there was something not quite right with most of these guys. But we just didn't associate with them. You could always spot them sitting by themselves in the cafeteria.

After school I worked in a factory with several vets. Got to know them enough to stay away. As did everyone else.

I've read enough about guys coming home from Iraq all messed up to know that we are just repeating Vietnam again with this decades young generation.

>I met Marines who had five tours in Vietnam. They were crazy and I mean crazy! This multiple tour thing in Iraq is not good for our troops. One tour is too many.
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>>I have a good buddy in the national guard. He was my roommate in college and best man at my wedding. Signed up for the national guard right out of high school, with another mutual friend of ours. They got called up and shipped out right away for a year and a half. Both were injured, both have Purple Hearts, both are back home now and probably expected to be called up again now. Kind of puts things in perspecive...