re: #181 HappyWarrior

Dad pointed out a high school acquaintance of his once when we were there. Afghanistan is feeling like another Vietnam. A complex nation that our policy makers don’t get.

It changes my perspective on war a little bit when I think of it like that. Names on a memorial are personal friends of family - or my personal friends, for Afghanistan and Iraq. I wonder how many of my high school classmates came home from the Iraqi desert draped in an American flag? I know a couple who came back intact, I could probably ask them if I gathered the courage.