Vets Also Divided Over McCain, Obama

[unhappycamper]

Vets Also Divided Over McCain, Obama
October 06, 2008
San Jose Mercury News

Doug Nelson remembers his year in Vietnam with discomfort, weathering the Tet Offensive and watching friends die, while enduring the countless horrors of combat.

And he remembers Soldiers returning home to mistreatment by their fellow Americans and then having to fight -- sometimes decades later -- for the benefits and health care their blood and sweat had earned.

Tom Clark, who helped train Soldiers early in Vietnam, also remembers that war, watching with disappointment as the last U.S. troops were airlifted from Saigon in 1975, a nation's honor scuffed as those choppers lifted off.

And now with America in the throes of another long, unpopular war, and Soldiers, once again, bringing their battle scars back home by the thousands, veterans across the country, like Nelson and Clark, are taking hard looks at Barack Obama, who has pledged to end the Iraq war, and John McCain, among the war's most ardent supporters.

Nelson is leaning toward Obama, who has no military service, while Clark is putting his faith in McCain, a war hero whose courage as a prisoner of war is widely hailed.


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uhc comment: Don't tell anyone, but I'm voting for Obama.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Then there's Steven

who served two tours of duty in Viet Nam, a career Army guy who rose through the ranks to become an officer. He's 100% for Obama, and has everyone in his family voting Democrat, including his 90 year old Republican mother. He can always count on his sister voting Dem, too--that's me.