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That I didn’t like seeing anyone dead regardless of sides and didn’t like seeing those I served with celebrating kills. We are all Gods children and seeing a life taken will always be disturbing to me.

Last drone attack before pulling out last month hit a suspected ISIS-K car, 10 dead, 3 adults and 7 children. Car was suspected of having explosives and after the hit, a second explosion came from that car, maybe explosives or maybe a full gas tank but at the end of the day, 7 children are dead and for them, I grieve.

Mostly about how even when things were peaceful, things were always dangerous. When I worked on the ship, there was always stuff that I worked with that could either seriously injure or even kill me.

The lose of friends in combat ,and having to tell people that where the only one that lived after being hit by a I.E.D.

Came back from Vietnam Jan. 1971 and could not sleep cause it was so quite that I slept in the bathtub waiting for an attack and my mother cried when she saw me.

I served from 6/1962 until 4/1965 right out of college and I did not have a difficult time in Korea. However, I developed a love, compassion, and respect for my brothers in arms that had to endure the endless struggle in Vietnam and the other useless conflicts that followed.

When I told the family what was really happening in Vietnam and when they saw the pictures they finally believed me.

I was in the Military Intelligence field so there was very little that I could tell my family about my job in the military.

Being in trouble for being gone and not being able to tell them when or where!

Vietnam.

Why I didn’t write or call more often