As a veteran of WWII, I watched with dismay the gradual involvement of our national government in what started as a struggle of the Vietnamese to free themselves from a colonial power (France) and ended as a civil war. Even though their leader, Ho Chi Minh, had studied in the U.S., admired this nation, and based his new constitution on ours, our leaders supported France and their Vietnamese puppets. Only Alaska's Senator Gruening and Oregon's Sen. Morse had the wisdom and guts to oppose the mad adventure. It baffles me that there are people now who are still defending involvement of the U.S. in the Vietnamese revolution. Veterans of that struggle are to be both pitied and honored, but their leaders in Washington and some of their generals in Vietnam remembered with contempt. As I recall, my friends at the time had no trouble making that distinction.
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