Loading ...I rather surprised the wife of a militairy acquaintance when she learned I was a Vietnam era vet and she “thanked me for my service.” First I was surprised… no one had ever done that to me. Then I rather curtly replied, “Don’t thank me! I was the one that got ‘serviced’ in that deal!”
It was a different time then. I enlisted because I was unable to find a job because I was ‘draft eligible’. There was blatant in-my-face discrimination that would be illegal today. Unwilling and forced conscription made for an ugly mood among the troops and Americans. No… don’t you DARE ‘thank me for my service’! It was a Federal sentence of an innocent person.