Reply #24: It's really appalling that we'd even feel compelled to show them.

[TahitiNut]

I remember that I worked hard in the 70s to avoid being seen as a Viet Nam veteran. It wasn't something people held in any kind of high esteem, imho. Somewhere in the early 80s, things changed. All of a sudden Viet Nam veterans seemed to be everywhere - like chickenman. Maybe it was when the Wall went up. Dunno. It was strange ... but I still avoided being seen as one and my family has never, to this day, been interested in whatever I might have experienced and learned. What's interesting to me is that people who weren't even alive then or barely out of diapers seem to have adopted similar attitudes - they're not interested in what I might say; they'll tell me and if I disagree then I'm either a liar or fool. After all, they read a book! :eyes: The more things change the more they stay the same.