War Stories

Lots of comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam these days.

Considering the implications of what I just stated, I am having serious deja vu with our current situation in Iraq in comparison to Vietnam. I was one of those hippie, ‘flower child’ kids who marched and demonstrated against the Vietnam war. I remember what it was like in the last days of the war that had polarized a nation for a decade, ravaged a country thousands of miles away and left the U.S. in a humiliating, devastating defeat (sound familiar?). Kevin Maloney, a U.S. Marine who arrived in Saigon just months before the final evacuation describes what it was like the last day of the evacuation:

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