Monday, March 21, 2011
Jerry's Sacrifice
I met a man named Jerry yesterday. He was wearing a cap that said, "Once a Marine, Always a Marine." Jerry lost one-third of his leg fighting Communists in Viet Nam. He expressed dismay at the way America just turned and walked away from that war, leaving 59,000 troops to die in vain, despite the fact that America was winning the war. Jerry went there three times.
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Since my dad went to Vietnam, I had plenty of opportunity to speak with the vets from that war. We never lost it there, "we" lost it here. We owe them an apology and a thank you in the very least.
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