[TheRealThing]

I am not lecturing you on Vietnam. I am saying one man's experience and viewpoint does not the world make. This does not cheapen your military service, but it also points out that broad generalizations based on that experience are not necessarily binding on debate, or overall truth for that matter.

I firmly believe there is one who is before all things and in whom all things hold together (Colossians). That includes Truth. But, how subservient to Christ were the founders of this nation when they left it perfectly legal to own, buy, sell, and trade human beings? And not let women vote, or hold public office, or have legal standing? It is, in my view, wise to look to the most noble reading of the principles they put forth, but to look at the men themselves as those who but saw through a glass darkly at best, and as ignoble brutes dwelling in the flesh at worst.

I said the US Military, not just Viet Nam. You're the one hyperbolizing with the burned out village talk. And please by all means, see this world through your own eyes. I'm just telling you that what you're describing is not what I saw when I was there.