BEYOND VIETNAM’S BATTLEFIELDS: A SOLDIER’S REFLECTION

Of all the truths I learned in combat, the truest was this: we had to adapt. The battlefield shifted daily. It was the same and yet, different. Every step led us toward injury a death. We had to objectify the fight. Conquer it. Our survival demanded it.

I never imagined that, by war’s end, 58,000 of us would be dead, and 150,000 would return broken. For all the Army’s intelligence, our skill, and our experience, I never realized my government saw us as nothing more than “dumb, stupid animals” — pawns in the hands of foreign policy. Kissinger’s words haunt me still. They churn my stomach and stir my anger. What’s gone is gone. But I remember. And I always will. Even if I lived a thousand years, I would remember.

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