Good story on the Denver Post this morning

by a soldier from the Viet Nam War, who still has PTSD. He runs the hills around Golden and Boulder to relax and rejuvenate. As he runs, he thinks....

So many of us returned home with a profound uncertainty about the truth and purpose of what we’d been told about war; and that fundamental fact altered our perceptions of the very society and institutions we believed we had fought to preserve. We discovered we’d been misled at best. There was no domino effect. No threat to our country or our way of life as we’d been told. There was only the myth of a threat, an eagerness for military intervention, and the resulting “fog of war,” as Carl von Clausewitz termed it, that resulted in the pointless deaths some 60,000 men and women.

Luckily, or fortunately, I avoided the hell-hole of Viet Nam, that screwed up SO MANY lives, but it taught many of us a lesson. You con't trust your country's leaders, cuz they have their own agenda and it isn't always what's best for the young soldier.
Most of us thought such a YUUUGE mistake couldn't happen again. GW and the Dick showed us we were wrong, by lying us into a quagmire that killed thousands, cost trillions and is still slogging on today.
And it's only a matter of time until the Liar in Chief will embroil us in another war, to satisfy his boundless ego and profit the ever-thirsty Repub war machine, UNLESS he is removed from office before he can start the war.
We can only hope,,,,,,