General Discussion

my stint in the military and in Vietnam taught me more about how governments function and malfunction than anything else. I did not want to participate in a war that I felt our politicians started for the wrong reasons, and some of the corruption I saw I have kept to myself all these years for fear of retribution. Ironically, after all the time and money the army spent on my artillery training, when I got to Vietnam my unit's personnel officer noticed I had a degree in English and had taken classes in journalism. They made me a G-2 (division level) intelligence officer. Reams of sensitive communications and agent reports crossed my desk, some of which were quite shocking.