as 1972, I was sitting in a Journalism class at the University of Oregon. The college
was very active protesting the Vietnam war. I remained silent most of the time there.
Veterans from that war were not popular.
Once the My Lai Massacare was being discussed. I mentioned the name
of the village, So'n my. The teacher seemed surprised I know the name of the village. American soldiers killed between 200-500 men, women, and children. I explained I was in the area and knew what had been happening to the company who
killed these people. They had been losing many of their buddies. Losing a friend changes
you. War changes some soldiers.
I then and now am not defending what our guys did. Murder is wrong.
I was called many things and ordered out of his classroom. Other students turned their
heads away from me. The look of disgust on the teachers face seems like it happened
to me yesterday.
I had few friends in college and moved into an apartment with other veterans. The Vietnam
The war was ugly, bloody and wrong. I will,however, in another diary, publish pictures of
other villages where myself and others went to give medical care to the people who lived there.
A few drunk frat idiots are guilty of stupidity. They should be punished and thrown out of school.
Our longest war has caused such havoc and changed lives of veterans, they need to
know we love them and honor them.The frat fools need to get sober and apologize.
May God bless and keep all soldiers, young and old, and may that same God open the eyes of all political leaders to the truth that most wars are a confession of failure—the failure of diplomacy and negotiation and common sense and, in most cases, of leadership.”
― Harold G. Moore, We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
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