veterans: iraq viet nam

"Who could possibly understand? Who? One minute there is a building next to you, fifty yards away. The next minute it's gone. My buddy is dead. It could have been me. Who could understand? We are like aliens from the future to those people. Those people dressed in sheets and with bare feet." Iraq

"The first twenty four years of my life were wonderful. Then there were the thirteen months in Viet Nam. The next forty years I've spent recovering from those thirteen months." Viet Nam