Comments on: 50th Anniversary of Vietnam War’s First American Combat Casualties http://www.armchairgeneral.com/50th-anniversary-of-vietnam-wars-first-american-combat-casualties.htm All things military history! Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: hugmortan http://www.armchairgeneral.com/50th-anniversary-of-vietnam-wars-first-american-combat-casualties.htm/comment-page-1#comment-10840 hugmortan Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:14:00 +0000 http://www.armchairgeneral.com/?p=6115#comment-10840 I am 60 and went to school in a small town in the South. my classmates were too poor for college deferments so alot of them went over. That war ended but the effects haven't. Friends who I am still lucky enough to have function in society but probably not to the potential they would have. After all these years when they get under stress they have the terrible nightmares. I know you're taliking about the men who died that's why they're on that wall.Personally I don't want to see the names of dear highschool friends listed. Maybe I am like an ostrich. I am however very glad our government finally saw fit to honor brave men and women who risked and lost their lives. They did not choose the war. They followed orders. Their faces as they were in highschool and early college are going through my mind right now along with memories of good times. Thank you for that. I am 60 and went to school in a small town in the South. my classmates were too poor for college deferments so alot of them went over. That war ended but the effects haven’t. Friends who I am still lucky enough to have function in society but probably not to the potential they would have. After all these years when they get under stress they have the terrible nightmares. I know you’re taliking about the men who died that’s why they’re on that wall.Personally I don’t want to see the names of dear highschool friends listed. Maybe I am like an ostrich. I am however very glad our government finally saw fit to honor brave men and women who risked and lost their lives. They did not choose the war. They followed orders. Their faces as they were in highschool and early college are going through my mind right now along with memories of good times. Thank you for that.

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