Remember Viet Nam?

This was written by my dearest friend's Uncle. It should be read, absorbed, contemplated. For those too young to remember the VietNam war, it will give you some rare insight as to the way we really treat our Veterans of war. We should be ashamed. I am. Thank you Dennis Tuohy, I love you.

Subject: Re: Brutally Honest: "Tango Mike Mike"

As a Viet Nam vet let me say this as we approach Vets day ..... I think they should bring home all the troops as of YESTERDAY and start reducing the defense budget by a lot .....did you know that we spend more than the next 25 or so countries combined and almost all of them are our fuckin' ALLIES.....before the "you'd be hurting our troops" people get up in arms let me remind you of a few things......why do we pay Halliburton, KBR and the others zillions of bucks to build shit that wouldn't pass an inspection in Bangladesh and is killing our soldiers.....isn't this a slap in the face to the Navy's Sea Bees and Army'sTriple Nickel and all the other construction outfits in the service the built stuff the right way for probably 5% the cost of civilians and took pride in their work.....why is cooking, cleaning, laundry and other things that I did in the service now subcontracted out for 1000 times the cost....no fucking wonder we're always at war, there's a lot of money to be made......remember what Eisenhower said about the "military industrial complex"..... BEWARE !!!!!!

finally, get rid of, instantly, these fucking predatory leeches like Blackwater and the rest of these "gun for hire assholes"......Marines and the other branches of the service aren't "good enough" to guard dignitaries, embassies, etc, again for 100s of times the cost.........how does that make our troops feel....get rid of all those contractor assholes......it's like the only thing our govt. thinks the troops are good for is dying and they are cheap REPLACEABLE parts......oh, well we "have to be prepared to defend ourselves against our enemies".....are you fucking kidding me......does Iran hate us???...they only hate us because when Isreal tells us to jump, we say HOW HIGH........ I've always wondered, what does Isreal have that makes them so fucking important to us......oh well they are a strategically located ally....bullshit !!!!.....so is Jordan, a predominately christian country (not that the matters a fuck to me).......and does Jordan exist because of US $$$$$s.......I do not hate the jews at all, but they are powerful enough (because of us) to defend themselves....and back to Iran, now today Isreal is telling us that we should attack Iran because of their "nuclear" threat.....against who???? what are they gonna do if they get a bomb, throw it at us......anyone worried about some one using a nuke, I'd be worried about Isreal......and then like lemmings we'd have to back them......SOOOOOOOOOOO.....let's bring home the troops, make Bush go on TV and publicly apologize to every parent that lost a child to these wars based on FLAT OUT FUCKING lies and also make him apologize to every troop damaged physically or mentally because of his lies.....then get rid of all (as Truman said) war profiteers.....and finally, if we really want to HONOR our troops, never again go to war unless the people in charge of our government are willing to send their kids first....then we will know that it's PROBABLY a just cause....either that or the corporate fat cats want us to......the way our govt is now, a lot of politicians would probably sell out their own kids for corporate interests.......

one of these days (maybe over a pint or two) let me tell you the full story of a close friend of mine, Michael Morrison, who on his 3rd tour in Viet Nam, lost an arm and part of a leg....people say you only had to serve 1 tour in Nam.....BULLSHIT....Mike should have never gone back for the 3rd tour.....he only had 9 mos. left, not enough time......he had 3 Purple Hearts, an automatic combat exclusion.....our govt. changed the 9 mos. rule and held up the paperwork on 3rd Purple Heart......so Mike had to go back, got blown up and then the govt. dumps him with $400 a month for the rest of his life.......what fucking sweethearts......went to see him at Oak Knolls hospital in east bay and there were 3 buildings, 3 stories each and all holding single, double, triple and quadruple amputees.....probably 100s, maybe 1000 all with similar "Mike" stories.....Mike got out and I hung around with him for quite a while and then just disappeared .....I spent about 35+ years trying to find Mike, then just recently heard from a high school classmate that he had died and as I read the obit I came to something that made me well up with tears, I couldn't help it.....the obit was from 1985 ....Mike was only 39 fucking years old.....39 fucking years old of suicide, up in the mountains.....Mike was a fucking hero.....fell on a mine with about 20 days to go in his tour and saved some buddies....our govt. used him for another unjust cause, discarded him like an old sneaker, when he was no longer useful as cannon fodder and forgot about him......but there are no videos about Mike Morrison or any of the 1000s of guys that went thru Oak Knolls or any of the other facilities....and the number is growing every day.......

If we really want to honor the soldiers of the past.....let's stop this bullshit now

Dennis Tuohy USAF 19812108 1964 - 1968 Viet Nam 1966-1967, Cam Rahn Bay, Na Trang, Tan San Nhut