"Once More a Nation Divided"

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By David H. Hackworth

The Vietnam War rages on. Witness the barrages being fired by Viet vets on the right and the left: “George W. Bush is a draft-dodger”; “John F. Kerry isn’t a war hero.”

Once again, that tragic war divides America – and this time around it’s vet pitted against vet.

Sure, Bush dodged the draft, along with a reported 14 million other Americans with the savvy to work out that Vietnam was a no-win, sorry war. But although he had the luck and the connections to land a spot in the Air Guard, he did put his butt on the line flying a machine for which he was entitled to hazardous-duty pay – and that's because zooming around in a jet fighter was and still is highly dangerous.

And sure, Kerry’s campaign push on how he Ramboed his way through the war – for four months – rubs a lot of vets the wrong way. And it does take its toll on those of us who prefer our heroes to be modest, unassuming types like Alvin York – who stayed the course until it was “Over, over there.”

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1. Shred you have a lot of balls posting a message like this

You will be flamed, and your post will be archived, whatever that means,anyone who posts the least negative message on this site is a heretic and the anti-Christ.

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2. The tone of the whole article...

is not negative towards anybody but the bullshit Rove-O'Neil machine.