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Roy Rolling

(7,341 posts)
4. Trust Me
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:47 AM
Friday

Veterans are talking amongst themselves. Especially veterans of Vietnam. Of course we respect anyone who wants to risk their lives for their country, whatever the conflict or readiness.

But 58,000 U.S. souls of all races, religions, and creeds were lost to eternity in Vietnam—dwarfing any operation (no declaration of war) since. Vietnam was a hell on earth for the brave soldiers dragged into a phony war for commercial purposes.

They didn’t experience that for nothing. And since then, they know and live the benefits of being a U.S. military veteran for 50 years.

You can’t recruit someone to follow a coward and his gang after they’ve been hardened by combat and death around them for years on end. 58,000 dead, countless maimed and disabled.

Veterans will fight for liberty, but not to keep a leader seated on a gold toilet, flushing his crypto and other people’s money down the crapper.

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