What a heartwarming picture, and heartbreaking because it happens all too often.
I remember the first time I visited the Vietnam memorial in Washington. I looked up the names of classmates who were on the wall, then sat on a bench and watched all the others, many of the homeless vets, come and mourn their friends and family. My overwhelming feeling was “the real enemy of the US soldiers in Vietnam was safely comfortable in Washington.”
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
So, so moving…brings to mind a novel called “Leaving Jack”, quite recently published by an SA author, about the thousands of duty dogs abandoned in Vietnam after the war…utterly heart-wrenching.
War causes an endless chain of sorrow.
What a heartwarming picture, and heartbreaking because it happens all too often.
I remember the first time I visited the Vietnam memorial in Washington. I looked up the names of classmates who were on the wall, then sat on a bench and watched all the others, many of the homeless vets, come and mourn their friends and family. My overwhelming feeling was “the real enemy of the US soldiers in Vietnam was safely comfortable in Washington.”
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
So, so moving…brings to mind a novel called “Leaving Jack”, quite recently published by an SA author, about the thousands of duty dogs abandoned in Vietnam after the war…utterly heart-wrenching.