View Single Post Old 05-01-2007, 11:55 PM   #1 Advanced Senior
Member polishshooter's Avatar Join Date: Mar 2001 Location:
Indiana Posts: 8,036 Default What do you think of my logic?
Vietnam vs. Iraq, AT HOME.  In another forum here, (NFA Weapons,
believe it or not, in a thread about an M2 Carbine) I had a
"Road to Ephesus/Eureka Moment....." ( I LOVE the "intellectual
stimulation" this place provides! MUCH better than talking to
myself on my long trips between inventories on the road.... )
Here it is.  How many of you, like me, lived through the 60s and
remember Walter Cronkite, the race riots, the Civil Rights
Movement, the Vietnam War protests...  I remember it like
yesterday. I was too young for Vietnam, but I was well on my way
in my reading and love of learning about World War II, and the
military in general, starting to think about a career in the US
Army or the USMC, or maybe the a "typical" family with a strong
WWII vet Red-White-and Blue Father, and an older brother with a
college deferment, sweati