WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED
AND THE BEAT GOES ON
The Vietnam war ended 4.30.75 but the beat goes on. The hurt, the pain. We lost over 58,000 lives and to this day I'm not sure we've learned anything personally or politically in the 30 years since the war ended.
We know about the lies we were told about the war back then, yet in the last election more lies were told to help defeat a man running for president. A women that disagreed with the war as many Americans did back in the late 60's early 70's today was spit upon at a book signing by a vet.
We say we're fighting for freedom. I say whose freedom?
I'm only one voice but it pains me to watch some of the shows that say they are honoring the 30th anniversary of the end of that awful war. Some of the vets talked about not being welcomed home, that they heard others were spat on. I've heard those stories too but I never saw any of it.
Some guys came back and picked up right where they left off. I worked for the Navy as a federal employee and my experience with all the officers or enlisted that I worked with over the years was always a positive experience. Like me they were just Americans.
Click here to see short video.I hope and pray we can get out of Iraq soon. I don't want it to turn into another Vietnam.
Times they are a-changin' - Bob Dylan.
Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'.
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin'. For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.
Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside And it is ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'.
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin'. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'.
The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.