Dave Lindorff: "America's Imperial Wars: We Need to See the Sickening Reality" -

[Excerpt]  When I was a 17-year-old kid in my senior year of high school, I didn’t think much about Vietnam. It was 1967, the war was raging, but I didn’t personally know anyone who was over there, Tet hadn’t happened yet. If anything, the excitement of jungle warfare attracted my interest more than anything (I had a .22 cal rifle, and liked to go off in the woods and shoot at things, often, I’ll admit, imagining it was an armed enemy.) ... Read more.  Also read a Vietnam vet Marine's response to this article, here.