Did some research on the welcome home parade and didn't find squat. Part of me thinks it might have been in Seattle but as I best recall, the rumors had it in San Francisco. Like either one mattered to us.
Got a problem and have no way to find out the truth. Is my attitude normal for a combat vet, albeit short seven months of a full tour? Somewhere down the road I'm gonna drag this drawn out memory into my early civilian years. What can be said for sure is that I didn't seem to fit. Felt an oddball among the vets and an oddball among those who didn't go.
Got no problem with those who didn't go, so long as they made a stand and paid the price of admission. Good friend of mind was a conscientious objector. Had the draft card to prove it. And did two years with the Peace Corps in Afghanistan. Good for him. No problems either with those who fled across the border. Gutsy move. Or those who did their time in prison.
As for the Bill Clinton or George W. Bush types. Simple as pie, total assholes. No two ways about it. Says a lot about us that we elected them to the presidency. Or Richard Nixon. Or Ronald Reagan. Or George H. W. Bush. Seems like us Americans have our problems when it comes to electing leaders.
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