by Margaret K. Loehr

Common Dreams

02/28/05

The U.S. began bombing Vietnam with B-52's in 1966. Twenty thousand combat soldiers were on the ground at that time, a small percentage of what was to come. That summer I lived on an Army base in Colorado. What I experienced there broke my heart and changed me as a person. Today, to the tune of the same rhetoric, same politics, same promises of freedom, we again send our youth to sacrifice and die. My long ago summer seems like it was yesterday...

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