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baldeagl · PO3 Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 260 Location: Texas

I'm sitting here wondering why we couldn't have a new "winter soldier" investigation (after the election) to once and for all put the stain of Kerry behind us. Surely we could put together something that would record testimony from real, decorated vets concerning what we did in Vietnam, what the ROE were, how they were enforced, what we did to help the RVN and what happened after we left.
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Navy_Navy_Navy · Admin Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5777

There was just a big seminar held in Boston - Examining the Myths of the Vietnam War - you might want to wait until the results are published from that seminar and then you'll get some good ideas for where you want to go and what you want to accomplish.

For instance, there is the myth that Vietnam Vets constitute a higher than usual percentage of the homeless and drug-addicted. Both of these have been proven untrue.

There IS a hell of a lot of untreated PTSD out there - and one study indicates that the anti-war movement had a lot to do with making PTSD so much more prevalalent among warriors of Vietnam than from other wars.

I think you have a really good idea there - it's time to debride the wounds and set the record straight and be healed.
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Wing Wiper · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:16 am Post subject:

Amen. We should try and clear some of the myths up before they get applied to the troops now in Iraq and in future conflicts. Once the present danger is over, many of the people "supporting" our troops now will start slinging mud and making false accusations.The prison abuse over there will give them enough of a platform to paint the Iraq veterans all with the same brush as "torturers" and "animals". I've seen some of it already.

jwb7605 · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject:

FreeFall · LCDR Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 421

National Review had a good article about the Winter Soldier Investigation and the "crazed vet" syndrome, which is a lot of baloney. It's toward the bottom.

http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/owens200404230859.asp