Published Brownsville Herald Nov 8, 2010
Veterans Day is coming on Thursday November 11. On past Veterans days I found it difficult to do much more than stay home and watch the news reports of politicians preening and taking credit for this or that little benefit they gave us or tried to become one of us and show how brave they were.
This is the first time that I have brought myself to think back and share my thoughts now some forty years later.
Being in War seemed to me to be a contradiction; There was the boredom of waiting for something to happen and the fear of what would happen. During the waiting we bantered back and forth about all the things we would do when the time came then the detached performance of the things we were trained to do, sometimes the impossible was accomplished; still you just did what you had to do, one thing after another. Then start it all over again when the next wave or assignment came. More »
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