Today
is Vietnam Veterans Day
Brave
men and women dodged bullets and shells heading into harm’s way
Only
to be spit upon, sworn at by pampered college students safe at home
Ringing
shouts of baby killers returning from Vietnam’s killing zone
Unlike
World War II or the Korean War with the nation for the troops as one
The
lack of support for our Vietnam troops can only stun
From
Hanoi Jane pointing an AAA up into the Hanoi sky
An
image suggesting she wanted the bomber pilots to be shot down and die
To
the thousands occupying universities and marching by the thousands in the
streets
Demonstrating
not for victory but demonstrating for the soldiers’ defeat
It
is hard to comprehend the depression and abandonment those men and women must
have felt knowing the home front did not have their backs
Hard
to comprehend their courage and bravery to saddle up again, lock and load and
move out into the jungle for yet another never ending attack
But
they did, again and again, through the paddies and through the ambush lurking
jungle paths
For
12 or 13 months to for their nation and flag and buddy practice their deadly
craft
Unwanted,
unloved, despised, except by family and close friends
Praying
each night in the field or firebase that their life would not soon end
Today
we are involved in another war, a war on terror with no end in sight
No
longer draftees but highly motivated soldiers eager to the forces of evil fight
A
grateful nation frustrated by the rise of ISIS and the callousness of the VA
Worried
that their sons and daughters or mothers and fathers are in harm’s way
Another
news item that makes you want to wonder what colleges teach, makes you want to
puke
That
leftist George
Ciccariello-Maher after his White genocide wish in line
for another Drexel rebuke
This
Drexel professor tweets that he wanted to vomit after a passenger gave up his
first class seat
To
a soldier in uniform maybe coming back from an Afghan tour having death or
wounds once again beat
This
“professor” is a complete loser who should be thankful the deplorables do not
advocate for the academic left genocide
Disagree
with the policy all you want but for heaven’s sake for receiving a bit of
comfort don’t men and women in uniform deride
© March 29, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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