Not In All Wars Are The Military Treated The Same
If you think about it, the military are not treated with the respect that they deserve. So it goes to say that not in all wars are the military treated the same. But why were they not treated the same? Was it because we didn’t like the reason why they went to war for us, to protect us? In the Vietnam War we hated the soldiers that came back just because we didn’t like the reason they went to war for us. But now when the soldiers come back home from the Wars we respect them more than we did back then. Then in World War II when the soldiers were coming home the trains were crowded. Now when the soldiers are coming home the planes aren’t crowded there is room still left for more to come home.
The soldiers defended us, they protect our country, protect us. They are brothers and sisters but what r we to each other? We fight over something that’s stupid, something so small, but our soldiers fight for something bigger something bigger than our little problems. But when then soldiers came home we treated them like they were the enemies but they aren’t they are our allies, our protectors, our family. So why do we treat our family like they don’t exist, like they don’t deserve the same respect as much as anyone else does?
Now when the soldiers come home they are treated with the respect that they deserve. You don’t hear about the people hating the soldiers. You hear about them loving and appraising them and not hating the soldiers. Didn’t we, us, the people just want to have the soldiers come back home and be respected? We might not have liked the reason they went to war but we respected that they wanted to protect this country, protect its people.
Shouldn’t the soldiers that came home from the Vietnam War be respected the same way our soldiers are being respected now? Just because we don’t like the reasons that they went to war doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be treated with the same respect. The soldiers are people too, we shouldn’t judge them we should respect them. It’s like how we are told when we were little to “respect our elders” well we should respect the people who protect our country, protect us.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is that the soldiers that came back home from the Vietnam War or any other war. That didn’t get the respect should have gotten that respect like our soldiers are getting now. It isn’t right to not have that since they are the ones that are risking their lives for us for their country.
"MANY of us in Vietnam shared a secret fantasy about coming home to a hero's welcome from a joyous family, a proud hometown, and a grateful nation. Most veterans of that war, however, know that reality was more like this:
I went home straight from California to O'Hare Airport in Chicago. I got home about three in the morning. Everybody in the house got up and said hello. Then they all went back to sleep. At 8:30 when my father left for work, he woke me up to say, "Listen, now that you're home, when are you going to get a job?"
I packed up and left. I haven't been home since.1"
1. Mark Baker, Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There (New York: Quill, 1982), p. 285.
Even their own families didn't like them, or like the War, and that must be hard on somebody. We shouldn't just let that get in the way of our family. We should just welcome our family back home, welcome them back into our lives again. They are doing that to protect us and for what they believe in. So how could somebody hate them just because they don't like the reason that they went to war for? Some soldiers didn't like the reasons either, like Michael Wong.
Michael Wong was a soldier in the U.S. Army forty-two years ago he was in the Vietnam War. "It was 1969. The Viet Nam war was raging. Over 500 unarmed old men, women, and children had been murdered at My Lai by U.S. soldiers, and a pattern of war atrocities and White House lies about the war was being exposed. The South Vietnamese government was shown to be hopelessly corrupt and ineffective, and the South Vietnamese Army was unable to hold their own against the enemy. U.S. troops, we were told, were there to prevent a complete disaster in Viet Nam. If we didn’t stop them in Viet Nam, we were told, the Communists would soon be at our shores." Said Michael Wong describing the Vietnam War. There was a lot of soldiers that were resisting to go to war (war resistors) so some of them escaped to Canada or somewhere else besides the U.S.
If you think about it, the military are not treated with the respect that they deserve. So it goes to say that not in all wars are the military treated the same. But why were they not treated the same? Was it because we didn’t like the reason why they went to war for us, to protect us? In the Vietnam War we hated the soldiers that came back just because we didn’t like the reason they went to war for us. But now when the soldiers come back home from the Wars we respect them more than we did back then. Then in World War II when the soldiers were coming home the trains were crowded. Now when the soldiers are coming home the planes aren’t crowded there is room still left for more to come home.
The soldiers defended us, they protect our country, protect us. They are brothers and sisters but what r we to each other? We fight over something that’s stupid, something so small, but our soldiers fight for something bigger something bigger than our little problems. But when then soldiers came home we treated them like they were the enemies but they aren’t they are our allies, our protectors, our family. So why do we treat our family like they don’t exist, like they don’t deserve the same respect as much as anyone else does?
Now when the soldiers come home they are treated with the respect that they deserve. You don’t hear about the people hating the soldiers. You hear about them loving and appraising them and not hating the soldiers. Didn’t we, us, the people just want to have the soldiers come back home and be respected? We might not have liked the reason they went to war but we respected that they wanted to protect this country, protect its people.
Shouldn’t the soldiers that came home from the Vietnam War be respected the same way our soldiers are being respected now? Just because we don’t like the reasons that they went to war doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be treated with the same respect. The soldiers are people too, we shouldn’t judge them we should respect them. It’s like how we are told when we were little to “respect our elders” well we should respect the people who protect our country, protect us.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is that the soldiers that came back home from the Vietnam War or any other war. That didn’t get the respect should have gotten that respect like our soldiers are getting now. It isn’t right to not have that since they are the ones that are risking their lives for us for their country.
"MANY of us in Vietnam shared a secret fantasy about coming home to a hero's welcome from a joyous family, a proud hometown, and a grateful nation. Most veterans of that war, however, know that reality was more like this:
I went home straight from California to O'Hare Airport in Chicago. I got home about three in the morning. Everybody in the house got up and said hello. Then they all went back to sleep. At 8:30 when my father left for work, he woke me up to say, "Listen, now that you're home, when are you going to get a job?"
I packed up and left. I haven't been home since.1"
1. Mark Baker, Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There (New York: Quill, 1982), p. 285.
Even their own families didn't like them, or like the War, and that must be hard on somebody. We shouldn't just let that get in the way of our family. We should just welcome our family back home, welcome them back into our lives again. They are doing that to protect us and for what they believe in. So how could somebody hate them just because they don't like the reason that they went to war for? Some soldiers didn't like the reasons either, like Michael Wong.
Michael Wong was a soldier in the U.S. Army forty-two years ago he was in the Vietnam War. "It was 1969. The Viet Nam war was raging. Over 500 unarmed old men, women, and children had been murdered at My Lai by U.S. soldiers, and a pattern of war atrocities and White House lies about the war was being exposed. The South Vietnamese government was shown to be hopelessly corrupt and ineffective, and the South Vietnamese Army was unable to hold their own against the enemy. U.S. troops, we were told, were there to prevent a complete disaster in Viet Nam. If we didn’t stop them in Viet Nam, we were told, the Communists would soon be at our shores." Said Michael Wong describing the Vietnam War. There was a lot of soldiers that were resisting to go to war (war resistors) so some of them escaped to Canada or somewhere else besides the U.S.