Today's Washington Post has an excellent piece from William McSweeny on the role of service in Vietnam in today's campaign. Key quote:
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Why did we go? Why did we allow our young bodies and our young psyches to be subjected to a war so forgotten that even today it has not been mentioned by either candidate, both of whom failed to notice the anniversary of its June beginning and July ending?
I believe it was because we knew that we should. Some of us enlisted as regular Army infantry privates and later became combat officers because other men of the "greatest generation" had done it and we should too. It is a young man's reaction to a sense of responsibility and duty, done without much forethought. That, I believe, is the key ingredient in John Kerry's service in Vietnam -- and why both campaigns should drop this contrived issue. |
Just another reminder of how far removed from reality most political discourse really is.
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