Reply #8: We support them, cuz the vast majority of them are okay

[Stinky The Clown]

I got out off active duty in the Navy in '69. Not a lot of support back then for military dischargees ......

But, eventually there was.

As a country we've learned. These guys are not criminals. To be sure, there are psychopaths and criminals in any societal group, but they are very, very few. Most are just sons and daughters and brothers and mothers and fathers. Friends. In many ways, victims of circumstance. But generally good people ...... very good people.

War does this to people. The healthy ones will recover and lead perfectly normal, unremarkable lives.

Please don't fear them. The military's job is to do what its country asks it to do. If you have a complaint, that complaint is to our government not to our soldiers.

While there are many parallels between Vietnam and the War In Iraq (tm), let's not treat these soldiers like were treated back then.

I hate this war, but not the warriors. (I'm a liberal so don't flame me for this, okay?)