A Vietnam Vet Returns to Vietnam
April 30, 2013
From a Vietnam veteran (with permission):
Between you and me, I am a VN vet at this moment am enjoying the wonderful hospitality of the Cambodian people after spending 2 weeks in Viet Nam. That I am welcomed and treated as an honored guest fills my heart with gladness but also know that I and others do not deserve such courtesy considering the horrors the US inflicted on these wonderful, warm and caring people. I have no wish to be honored by them even for the apologies or the money I give to support orphanages here. I helped make too many orphans. I do not deserve any honor. That I participated however unwillingly is a shame on my soul.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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