A Rose of a Different Color

Some people think, and still do, that the veterans of the Vietnam War were crazed baby killers who came home loaded dopers or alcoholics with no outlet but to do menial tasks, work for the government or post office, or any job that they didn't have to deal with people. And for the most part, it was true! The real truth is that they were children, seventeen to nineteen years of age, given a rifle and flown into a foreign country and told, "Don't shoot anybody unless they shoot first."

After s...