Originally Posted by
redietz
I knew four guys pretty well who went to Vietnam. My friend Sammy, with his 140 IQ, came back legally a drug addict, legally an alcoholic, and legally defined as insane. My brother-in-law did the long-range recon thing -- he learned the tech, which gave him a head start when he came back and started up his PI business. They always sent two out, separated in space, on those long range recons. Me -- I would have dug a hole and stayed in it until it was time to report back. Then I would have made shit up. My late wife's uncle went -- he refused to say Word One about anything that happened. Then my other friend was discharged for running over civilians with a jeep, evidently on purpose.