Following are some examples of the 'betrayal of what's right' which our veterans experienced. While all people going to war know that war is dangerous, nonetheless, it wasn't until after Vietnam that Americans saw pictures of wounded soldiers without arms or legs, with their intestines falling out or with their face partially destroyed. Prior to Vietnam, war movies saw its heros suffering 'heroically' with a 'grin 'n bear it' attitude. We never heard them weeping hysterically, screaming or calling for their mothers. While our young men knew at some level that war was dangerous, they were not prepared for either the reality of it or the brutality of it.
War is nasty.
It is terrifying. The agony and suffering is horrible and unbearable. Our veterans were betrayed by the fairness assumption . There was an obvious lack of fairness in distribution of risk. Many combat veterans report incidents of those in disfavor with their superiors pulling more than 'their fair share' of point duty, or consistently being given difficult, dirty or dangerous assignments.