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Veterans

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10. My dad is one of them.

Reply to marie999 (Reply #9)

Thu May 5, 2022, 09:11 AM

May 2022

I'm watching him slowly and painfully fade away before his time.

Dad came back with PTSD, a hatred of guns, and an entirely different view of United States govt.

To this day, he lays a lot of blame on McNamara, and Military Industrial Complex.

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Inside the Pentagon's shameful effort to draft mentally disabled men to fight in Vietnam [View all] douglas9 May 2022 OP

I never saw anyone like that in the Army or Nam. pwb May 2022 #1

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The truth is not insulting veterans its telling what the government did. marie999 May 2022 #9

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