I knew alot of men at both ends of the spectrum. One of my best buddies enlisted when I did. He got a medical discharge for staying hopped up on heroin. One night he and some of his cronies raped a little girl and then wrapped her in butterfly wire and shot her into hamburger. He used to show the pictures and brag about it after he got back in the States.

I never spoke to him after we returned but the last I knew of him he was a big shot among the vets and the VFW and I was just trying to forget.


"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

Henry Ward Beecher