I would have to say that watching the PBS special "the Vietnam war" has been an eye opening experience. it has drawn back the curtain exposing the lengths that both LBJ and Nixon went to hide what was both really going on over there and the decisions they were making to fight a secret war against those people. I don't think that knowing any of that at 18 would have changed my decision to go over there...I was hell bent on doing it, but it does dismay one to find out that outright lies seemed to be the currency of the day as far as our leaders were concerned.

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