Jul 14, 2019

From a Newspaper Column by A Vietnam Veteran, 50 years after the first U.S. deaths

"I had demonstrated against the war from the safety of my college deferment, so I thought of going to Canada. I also thought of getting a friendly doctor to say I had bone spurs or anxiety, but those choices would mean someone else from my refinery-town high school would have to go in my place."

So he went, just as Nixon was drawing down the number of troops being deployed. 

A good read HERE













 (At right, a soldier on a C130 plane leaving Vietnam, heading home alive in 1970. Photo by Tim Lennox)

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