Reply #35: Yes I did. Early-mid 60's [View All]

US Navy Gaiter Fleet, USS George Clymer, APA 27. Hauling kids barely out of high school to be canon fodder in Viet Nam. Kids that, at that time, were my age. I could tell by looking at some of them in the days before we got there that they knew beyond any Shadow of any doubt they were not coming back.
Steaming away after disembarking one ship load, I heard a report just hours after dropping one load off that a bunch were already dead. Some didn't last an hour. Kids not yet or barely old enough to legally drink yet, dead in another U.S. foreign war of choice.

How can one honor dead conscripts and not celebrate war?

Let's instead set aside a National Day of Peace to remember the futility of killing our sons and daughters because some politicians needed their ego stroked. There are always options to war.