Submitted by Guest461 (not verified) on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 8:25am.
What happened to you Vietnam Veterans was atrocious! They put you in there to fight and solve a problem but limited you down to near nothing. Then you get that wonderful "welcome home" when you get back. There is nothing that can be done to rectify that for you. Just be sure to thank your national journalists for portraying you as murderers, theives and a band of soldiers gone bad. No matter that you had to consider a pitiful, crying Vietnamese child running up to you for help with 30 sticks of dynamite strapped down under his little shirt.
The same thing is happening to our soldiers in Iraq and Afganistan today. The media cuts them down, cuts our leadership down (when Bush was President) and they come home in shame because of what the public is hearing from the media. They never hear of the great things that have been accomplished, the schools, rights for the women, the rebuilding of infrastructure...no...none of that.
It is no less than a crying shame that our media propagandizes such a slanted look at our overseas war efforts to the American people.
Those brave soldiers over there are risking their lives daily to protect the very freedom that the journalists use against them. I've witnessed this going on for years.
It is clearly left-wing, biased reporting. The news today isn't really news, it's propoganda and the "simple ones" believe it, just like in Vietnam.
NOTHING can fix that!
What happened to you Vietnam Veterans was atrocious! They put you in there to fight and solve a problem but limited you down to near nothing. Then you get that wonderful "welcome home" when you get back. There is nothing that can be done to rectify that for you. Just be sure to thank your national journalists for portraying you as murderers, theives and a band of soldiers gone bad. No matter that you had to consider a pitiful, crying Vietnamese child running up to you for help with 30 sticks of dynamite strapped down under his little shirt.
The same thing is happening to our soldiers in Iraq and Afganistan today. The media cuts them down, cuts our leadership down (when Bush was President) and they come home in shame because of what the public is hearing from the media. They never hear of the great things that have been accomplished, the schools, rights for the women, the rebuilding of infrastructure...no...none of that.
It is no less than a crying shame that our media propagandizes such a slanted look at our overseas war efforts to the American people.
Those brave soldiers over there are risking their lives daily to protect the very freedom that the journalists use against them. I've witnessed this going on for years.
It is clearly left-wing, biased reporting. The news today isn't really news, it's propoganda and the "simple ones" believe it, just like in Vietnam.