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Veterans

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4. And they're dying still of their war injuries --

Reply to TEB (Original post)

Tue May 1, 2018, 04:34 PM

May 2018

poisoning by agent orange, PTSD, etc.

Too damn many "sweet kids" and even not-so-sweet kids who didn't deserve to die. My generation. I am lucky that I only know of 1 person who was KIA -- the younger brother of a guy I dated in my senior year. Didn't really know him, thank heaven. But I'm sure it was too like the end of the world to that dear family.

I think most of us in my generation carry a heavy burden of grief from that war, and those senseless deaths. It took me many years before I could watch any 'Nam movies.