America lost over 58 thousands of its finest sons and daughters in the Vietnam War.
Spending 21 years from the French defeat of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to our diplomats being chased from the rooftop on April 30,1975, the country of Vietnam lost between 2 and 4 million of its own people, both famous and unknown in the same period of time.
Countries fight wars for many reasons,for oil, for treasure, for territory, for pride,
and from fear,
and on occasion, to liberate other peoples, by the tens of millions.
Old men will always find reasons to send younger men and women to war,
and find no shortage of them eager to go.
