My War. (A Vietnam Vet's short story) by "Fleabaggs."

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My War. (A Vietnam Vet's short story) by "Fleabaggs."

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Hi all
This is well worth reading.


My War, by Fleabaggs
I have started to write this a hundred times in 49 years. I would like to have used Our War but don’t want to presume to speak for all us Nam Vets still alive who were really there for a year or more. Nor can I speak for all the families of Nam Vets and all the millions of Vietnamese whose major crime was living in Vietnam at the time.

I do presume to speak for myself and my dead buddies who told me their stories as we commiserated in a dark corner of a seedy gin mill where we had been banished. I do presume to speak for some of the families I knew and my mother and the civilians who had an impact on me while I was there. I’m going to show you a picture of a few whose story never made it to the U.S. It’s shocking so stop here if you want to remain comfortably absolved in your sweet fantasy of non-involvement. This is not about “ME,” it’s about us...
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A good read indeed. My dad was in Vietnam. He would never talk about it. Lost him too young (51) to cancer.
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Thanks for your story Fleabaggs from a Nam era Army vet.
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brings back memories, - some good, some not so good
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Sneakypete wrote:brings back memories, - some good, some not so good
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Thank you for your service Brother Sneakypete
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