Originally posted by angeryamerican
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AA, I want to say that is a cool story, but it's not. There is nothing cool about it. Normally I am good with coming up with the right words but I can't think of the proper way to describe that story and what your Dad had to go through. I would say, "Heroic", but if he is anything like my Dad was, he would simply say there were no heroes out there.
I sometimes find myself comparing the young people coming up today with the ones who came a generation before us and shake my head wondering how we ever got to this point. How many of us would have the tenacity to sit in the lap of our dead best friend in order to land a helicopter? Why didn't people in this country go out of their way to help those guys back then like is done for today's returning warriors? I think it's great that people's attitudes have changed, but I think we will have an eternal black eye for how we allowed yesterday's heroes to be treated.
When we ever figure out a way to fight wars with the sons and daughters of the politicians, only then will we see an end to wars.
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