"The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country." – General George S. Patton Jr.
We ask our citizens to go to war and fight for our freedom. How do we treat them when they come home? During the Vietnam War, not very well. The hatred of the war took it's tool on our soldiers. U.S. Army Major Harry Russell came home with his entire life turned upside down. Everything he had worked for in his life was gone. Gone like his foot in a nighttime mortar attack. Gone like his career since the Army kicked him out as worthless dead weight. Gone like his friends, missing on a secret mission. All he has now is himself. And as a Vietnam veteran, that may not be enough.
