There are 55,000+ names on a black wall where we “honor” our war dead

Too many young kids died too far away from home for far too little.

Our government drafted them off of the streets (no deferrments for them) gave them three or four months training and dropped them far from home to “kill commies”.

The anti-war movement, both peaceful and not, was called “unAmerican” by the likes of Nixon and Agnew, who vowed to “bring the troops home with honor”. When pols speak those words it usually means someone else’s kid will have to die for an empty slogan.

May bedroom set is marked “Made in Vietnam” I guess a “commie” Vietnam was not the threat to American it was portrayed to be.

The names on that black wall, including my best friend – those PEOPLE – died for nothing as did the kids at Kent State and the hundreds of thousands of vietnamese.

Bill Ayers was wrong – but so was the United States of America.

Let’s give it a rest.