• There are Civil War Memorials in Washington, D. C., and all around the country. In my town of Alexandria, VA, in driving down Washington Street ("Main Street"), you must swerve at the corner of Washington and xxx Street to avoid hitting a statue to "An Unknown Confederate Soldier" sticking out in the middle of the street. (It got clobbbered a few years ago and had to be repaired, but not moved.) However, 55 years after the end of World War II, there is still no memorial to its Veterans! Well, we have only ourselves to blame because we allowed this "Era of The Bastard Wars" to brainwash the "Public Mind".

• There has been a great concern about Vietnam "MIAs" (bodies not yet found of thos "Missing in Action"). But the number of Korean MIAs was and still is vastly greater in number than those for Vietname. And this fact has penetrated the Media only recently.

• In an episode of the TV Series Quincy, starring Jack Klugman, a Vietnam veteran who served as a (female) nurse remarked that our Government, at the time of this episode, STILL DID NOT KNOW HOW MANY WOMEN SERVED IN VIETNAM! The Government could ONLY ESTIMATE THE NUMBER AT 50,000! (Does any one care?)

• Two recent independently conducted brain-imaging studies show that Vietnam combat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder also exhibit significant reductions in the size of the hippocampus of the brain, a structure previously implicated in short-term memory. This same condition has been found in women who have suffered severe, repeated sexual abuse in childhood.
• Statistics show that 'Namvets have earned 15% less than those who didn't go. (My generation's decrement is far less.)

• In 1992, The Veterans Administration stated that we had one million homeless veterans. Recently, the Media noted that 1/3 of those seeking public shelters are Veterans.
• According to 60 Minutes, 5/21/95, American soldiers dispatched and killed in a Salvadorian bastard war, 1986-7, have been denied combat recognition. Perhaps this has, since, been corrected. But I read the Washington Post and The New York Times carefully and listen to the TV news programs (our son, Tim, calls me "a news junkie"), and I've seen nothing about this.

• It has taken 30 years to recognize "Agent Orange" as toxic to the Service Personnel and civilians exposed to it.

• Will it take 30 years to deal with "The Gulf Syndrome"?

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