Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/16

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Subject: [Leica] The Wall, Ted Grants message, and names
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Fri Apr 16 14:40:47 2004
References: <000a01c423d2$ab33cea0$0c01a8c0@pc> <00b101c423d9$983b1220$6401a8c0@CCA4A5EF37E11E>
 
Sander,

Unlike WWI or WWII, the Viet Nam war was unique. There was an enormous 
outcry against the war, from pacifists, from college students, and from 
friends and family of the soldiers. This put the soldiers in a very awkward 
position of being pariahs when they returned. There are innumerable Viet 
Nam vets who have been permanently scarred by having been outcasts after a 
war that virtually nobody wanted to admit to. I lost friends I had grown up 
with, and know others who are still terribly adversely affected by the 
experience. I don't think that a monument to their sacrifice is at all 
excessive.

JLS


>The question is: where is this world going. Not on one side of the
>Atlantic, on both! And monuments; are they important?
>
>Sander
>Amsterdam
>Holland
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