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[eaglesurvivor]

wall: there’s a time and a place for everything. The infamous Baptist Church congregation protesting military funerals isn’t one of them.

On one of my shamming excursions in ’Nam, I was able to catch a general’s chopper to Cam Rahn Bay to soak off the rear, for a few days. There was a table outside of a cafeteria in CRB. Etched in the table, was two pieces of graffiti, among others. One read, “I will come back and conquer this place.” (PFC Billy Westmoreland, 1959) The other of note: “We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary for the ungrateful.”

Most soldiers in Viet Nam didn’t want to be there. They had little choice, especially given public school and media propaganda. This had a lot to do with the camaraderie of ‘Nam soldiers. We didn’t believe in a cause. We just believed in ourselves. We had to survive.

Just because the State Department and the CIA had manipulated events and circumstances in ‘Nam, that didn’t lay any genuine blame on the soldiers over there. If one wanted to run with that tact, then all those getting high in the states were doing more to support the war and the CIA than the GIs. It’s quite convenient for groupthink and personal dogmas and isms to have pet whipping boys and goats. Soldiers returning from ‘Nam know this all too well. But what did those holier-than-thou practioneers do with the experience? Why, they continued to support the NWO and the corporate monopolies and the guvy toadies.

Vets, like me, worked ferociously to bring down the evil system. We were still spit on and railed against. There were far more stupid animals than us who were pawns and knights and bishops and rooks for the NWO push.

Today, we’re still watchmen and a different kind of soldier and have a better understanding of what is really patriotism. Our sense of brotherhood is as strong as ever. Eddie Freeman was one of us. “He ain’t heavy; he’s my brother.” If we had more Eddie Freemans, we’d have less O’Bombers.

We had another saying in ‘Nam: “Viet Nam, if you haven’t been there, then STFU [fill in the blanks].”

This ‘Nam vet boycotts Stonybrook Farms, among others. I ask, “Who are the morons and pawns who buys their stuff and support GMOs?”

I can spend hours on a soapbox, and not get tired or even too proud, but I’ll just close with a salute to Eddie Freeman. That’s what the post was about.