>> A Vietnam Vet who survived.
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>I guess that is the case with all of you? I mean how could you become a Veteran if you did not survived, you would be a Vietnam Casualty rather :)

Good point. Which makes me think of one thing I have always wondered about in the English language. If I plan to meet my wife, and she is delayed, in Norwegian I can say "my late wife". But in English the same expression implies that she is dead, which is not the case....