They Died So We Could Purchase Cheap Underwear
January 30, 2016
An Army veteran from 1969-1970 writes:
Two weeks ago I was visiting the VA hospital in Madison Wisconsin. Stopping in to the retail store to purchase some Haines boxer shorts I noticed they are made in Vietnam. On the end cap of the same shelf unit were hats proudly announcing the wearer served in Vietnam. Glad to know brothers of my generation died so we can purchase cheap underwear today. Remember, we were fighting to prevent the advance of communism, we were told.
This is a good a reason as any other as to why U.S. soldiers died in Vietnam. They certainly didn’t die fighting for our freedoms.
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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