Friday, May 27, 2011

Vietnam interview

Q : What was your reaction to the negative responses you got when returning from the war?
A : I feel cheated out of my glory. Other war veterans were praised when they came home and i feel i deserve the same.
Q : Was it emotionally challenging to have to split up families during the war?
A : Yes, but you learn to do what you need to to follow orders.
Q : Was the events in the war sometimes too hard to absorb, and did this sometimes put you on the verge of insanity?
A : When you go to war, you lose a lot of your emotion, and have to avoid getting attached to things, cause war is hell.
Q : How much did you have to carry around everywhere you went?
A : Tons of gear, and we moved carefully because the forests were so dense the enemy could ambush us from anywhere.
Q : How did you feel knowing you were dropping napalm on what could be innocent villages and people?
A : We try to neglect the fact that we were killing anyone. It caused us less trauma because we could never see what we were doing, just pretending it was empty forests that we needed to get rid of.

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