i-fixed-your-meme: “The reality of the Vietnam War has receded in cultural memory to the point that
i-fixed-your-meme: “The reality of the Vietnam War has receded in cultural memory to the point that I can go far beyond a resonable respect for military veterans, and believe that a scared child forced to muck about in a rice paddy with a machine gun is more valorous than anyone reading this, including those scared children who have done similar things in deserts and mountains today.” Or, pithier, “They just don’t make pointless wars the way they used to.” FIFY -- source link