The duty of American citizens is to serve their country in a manner that affords the pleasures and freedoms we all now enjoy. Service comes in many colors painted with a variety of brushes. Serving by protest is a bit “off the wall,” I would opine. The major weapon of mass destruction in Iraq was Saddam, and he no longer is a threat.
I was lucky enough to go to Vietnam and fight for my country and those who were not able to defend themselves. You did not speak for me when you wrote, “In retrospect, we realize that Vietnam was the wrong war for the wrong reasons.”
If you did not go, how can you speak to the subject? Did you see the children sitting beside the body or bodies of their dead parents? I did. Have you ever seen disemboweled village chiefs tied to trees that refused the enemy? I did.
You should study some history, Mr. Pizzo. Communism did spread after we left Vietnam. There is no longer a North and a South Vietnam. There now is a “Vietnam,” and it is very communist; I returned in 1994 as a tourist and saw with my own eyes.
I support our service men and women now fighting for the people of this world that are unable to defend themselves. I invite you Mr. Pizzo, to attend one of my seminars on the Vietnam War, perhaps you might learn some real facts.
Jimmie Sanders
Pinehurst
