I will not forget

President Johnson visited the basement war room of the Whitehouse and played the general. He moved the designated pieces across the chart as a game board.

Of course, there were other games that Lyndon B. Johnson participated in, but this game was liked and dreaded the most.

And while the President possessed the macho to send more than two-million men into the crucible of the Vietnam war, he could not force himself to end the conflict.

Mr. Johnson and his cronies were not men who backed down from a fight. Anything short of a victory, regardless of the cost, was unacceptable.

Instead of this attitude becoming a virtue, it turned into a sickness. A unique American politician’s disease that sent more than 58,000 of my brothers and sisters to their deaths, 150,000 wounded, and 50,000 with effects of PTSD and Agent Orange.

If I lived a thousand years, I would not forgive them.

Jerry Glazer — Vietnam Uncensored

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