An Unproud Veteran Speaks Out
November 12, 2007
Now, this veteran I admire:
“Just want to add another amen to your article from a Vietnam veteran. I was at some gathering not long ago where they asked all the veterans to come forward and be acknowledged. My wife and kids urged me to go forward but I would not. I am not proud of travelling 10,000 miles from my home at the age of 19 to help kill people I didn’t know and with whom I had no argument for a cause I didn’t understand. The older I get and the closer to my day of reckoning the more I think of my foreign adventure as a reason for repentance than for pride.”
(used by permission)
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.
Wise Walrus