Conversation with my son about war/conflict: thinking there will always be a person or country or some other entity that wants to dominate others, like the bully in the school yard kind of. It's sad that this type of personality drags so many others down to their level. There is good in most people I like to think......
I thoroughly enjoyed all 5 segments and heartily agree with your Dad's statement about not making any more dead ones. I have never understoo (and never will) the entire mind set of war where perfrct strangers kill each other because some third party told them it's necessary. My Dad was drafted to Korea. My parents married in Jsnuary, he was on base as of February. He got leave in Nov or Dec to meet his newborn daughter (me) and was promptly assigbed to Korea & didn't see me again until I was 2 years old. How could a woman in the 1950s support a child on her own? The government & the army didn't care. Fortunately my grandparents were able to buy a 2 family house & my grandmother served as built-in baby-sitter so that my mom could work. We all stayed in that house (not me - I moved away when I got married & to NH 9 years later) until all but my dad had passed on. Neither of us wanted the house and so I sold it to a nice family with young children.
I lost friends to the VietNam war &- worse- some came back mentally or physicslly damaged beyond repair & treated badly by both the government AND veterans organizations because it was not a DECLARED war so they hsd no rights! 40+ years later there are still conditions that are FINALLY beingbackniwledged. I have the deepest empathy for GoldStar Families & veterans & their families but still will NEVER understsnd the "necessity" of war.
Conversation with my son about war/conflict: thinking there will always be a person or country or some other entity that wants to dominate others, like the bully in the school yard kind of. It's sad that this type of personality drags so many others down to their level. There is good in most people I like to think......
I thoroughly enjoyed all 5 segments and heartily agree with your Dad's statement about not making any more dead ones. I have never understoo (and never will) the entire mind set of war where perfrct strangers kill each other because some third party told them it's necessary. My Dad was drafted to Korea. My parents married in Jsnuary, he was on base as of February. He got leave in Nov or Dec to meet his newborn daughter (me) and was promptly assigbed to Korea & didn't see me again until I was 2 years old. How could a woman in the 1950s support a child on her own? The government & the army didn't care. Fortunately my grandparents were able to buy a 2 family house & my grandmother served as built-in baby-sitter so that my mom could work. We all stayed in that house (not me - I moved away when I got married & to NH 9 years later) until all but my dad had passed on. Neither of us wanted the house and so I sold it to a nice family with young children.
I lost friends to the VietNam war &- worse- some came back mentally or physicslly damaged beyond repair & treated badly by both the government AND veterans organizations because it was not a DECLARED war so they hsd no rights! 40+ years later there are still conditions that are FINALLY beingbackniwledged. I have the deepest empathy for GoldStar Families & veterans & their families but still will NEVER understsnd the "necessity" of war.