May 3rd...the day my cousin was KILLED in Vietnam....

[diamond14]

history is truly repeating itself in Iraq...OUR soldiers are again dying for LIES...the draft will be here soon, again, to 'suck into the intake' more young people to DIE....


On this day in 1966...these men were KILLED in Vietnam...
died for a LIE....my cousin is here...panel 7E...he was my friend, I grew up with him, we played together as children...a young life snuff out by LIES....his father DIED FROM GRIEF a short while after his only son's death...

WILLIAM EUGENE JR TUCKER CHARLES ROBERT TRESCOTT
JAMES DOUGLAS STOKES JOSEPH ALLE SCHWERDTFEGER
BERNARD JAMES RODZEN FRED LEWIS RICHARDSON
JOHN MICHAEL PHILLIPS JOSEPH ANTHONY JR PECORA
ANGELO FRANCIS MICHELLI VIRGIL LINDQUIST
ANTONINE GEORGE KOCIPER DOUGLAS JACKSON
EDDIE RAY DERRITT RICHARD GEORGE ENGELMAN


from the Virtual Vietnam Wall (thank you, Al Gore)

On May 03,
178 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.

On this day in 1966,
14 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.

On this day in 1967,
70 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.

On this day in 1968,
39 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.

On this day in 1969,
21 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.

On this day in 1970,
21 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.

On this day in 1971,
5 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.

On this day in 1972,
8 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.

[Kanary]

1. I never thought we'd be repeating this!

I'm sooo sorry, amen1234. I know those words are paltry. I very much appreciate you posting this.

I lived through that time, protested, studied all the background, protested again and again. I really thought that we had learned something. It's such a shock to me that we're repeating so much of this national agony.

When I visited the Wall in DC, as I went down that ramp, my breath caught, and I thought to myself... "Here's my generation." Now we have another generation, being dragged through the same wringer.

Thank you for the reminder.

"It's a waste" doesn't even begin to cover it, does it?

Kanary, hoping *this* generation learns what mine obviously did not.

[diamond14]

4. thanks. nobody really cares much..the USA didn't cared much when my cousin

was KILLED, and it seems from this board, there still is little interest....like OUR soldiers being KILLED everyday in Iraq...it's just background noise to a society wallowing in their own crap and caring little...which is exactly why the Vietnam war was easily escalated and dragged on for 14 years....Iraq is in the second year, Afganistan the third year....and really, nobody cares...bush* wars are destroying our economy, but making bush* war-profiteers filthy rich with our taxes and our young soldiers' lives....

everyone cheering and fighting in Iraq might reflect on that, for Iraq is simply Vietnam regurgitated....



anyways, I thought someone should say something to honor a young man's life....my cousin was only 19 years old...'sucked into the intake' and DIED for a lie....May 3rd....

[Kanary]

5. It doesn't go away, does it?

That sense of betrayal... that eye-opening experience of finding out just what your country REALLY is.

It hits the gut, and stays there.

It's these things that set some of us individuals apart, and forever separates us from the rest of the population, making us feel that isolation, hurt, and sense of hopelessness.

I'm very glad you honored your cousin's life here. He was my age, and I wish I had known him.

Kanary

[DrWeird]

2. What was the final count today?

eleven?

[BrotherBuzz]

3. I'm sorry

and in a symbolic way I was his replacement because I got drafted on the fourth of May, only a different year.