32 years ago today, the last American combat troops left Vietnam, ending our direct military involvement in a bloody debacle in which we failed entirely to bring peace to the world, and gained nothing tangible but a large and sorrowful wall in Washington.
What we lost … baffles the imagination. So much love, art, energy, brilliance … thousands upon thousands of brothers, fathers, sons. And so many more came home so badly hurt. Is there anyone out there who thinks it was worth it? No one can run his fingers over even one name on that wall and say, “it was worth it to send this one there … this one we could do without.”
They who won’t learn from history are damned to relive it.
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