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After an argument about a leave denied, Specialist Ivan Lopez pulled out a .45-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun and began a shooting spree at Fort Hood, America’s biggest stateside base, that left three soldiers dead and 16 wounded. When he did so, he also pulled America’s fading wars out of the closet. This time, a Fort Hood mass killing, the second in four and a half years, was committed by a man who was neither a religious nor a political “extremist.” He seems to have been merely one of America’s injured and troubled veterans who now number in the hundreds of thousands.
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The consequences of that was the 50’s. The greatest decade of the last century. Life was good - real good. These veterans of the great war, who were raised in the depression, who fought their hearts out in the war, were now free to build a society built on the principles they learned while going through all that hardship. It worked. The 50’s were GREAT.
It all changed in 1963 with the Kennedy assassination. It put a complete halt to what these veterans were doing. Their dream was shattered. And the kids of these veterans saw their world shattered too. All their dreams and aspirations gone with the Kennedy assassination. It wasn’t right – they knew it wasn’t right and they rebelled thereof. But it was too late.
I started acquiring the “gifts” of war in Cambodia. Third day in - all Hell broke lose. Haven’t been the same since. Acquired more of the “gifts” in the Highlands outside of An Khe. Then again down north of Saigon with the 1/7th Air Cav. More “gifts”.
What “life lessons” do you learn in combat? What does going to war teach you? What are the conclusions that are brought home very clearly to the participants of the firefights, ambushes, pulling guard duty and the sheer brutality of it all? And, is it even possible to learn lessons from all that ugliness?
Well, of course, I wouldn’t be writing this unless I had some answers to those questions - unless I knew personally about all this. When I returned from the war I didn’t know any of this. Well, at least, I didn’t know I knew. It took years to figure it out. I thought I would just get back to the world and go back to living my life. I didn’t really think about what could have been different, or that anything was different. I was just glad to have made it back. Now let’s carry on. It didn’t work. Why?
Earl was a WW II veteran. He told us some of the war stories, which I thought were interesting, but didn’t pay much heed to. He was a kind, generous, hard working, rugged, tough, individual. Work hard but don’t forget to smell the roses along the way - have some fun. It seemed like Earl knew something the rest of us didn’t have a clue about. Oh, his family knew, they were used to it, they thought it was “normal”. But we outsiders didn’t have a clue. Now I know.
Is that important? You bet. Look what they did with it. They too had learned the lessons of war on a subconscious level. It was in their hearts. Peace not war, love not hate, patience not intolerance, life is short so have fun living it, things of the heart are important, material possessions pass, be honest, work hard, smell the roses all along the way. Be kind, generous, and loving but also stand up for yourself and fight injustice. Valuable lessons of life brought home very clearly and without doubt by the participation in a war. Their priorities were correct and they proceeded to build the 50’s with that. The greatest decade of the entire century. And if you look back at WW I they did the same thing in the 20’s. The veterans did that. They had that much influence on society. As they should.
Of course, after WW I the good times ended with the crash of the stock market in 29. After WW II the good times ended with the Kennedy assassination. But the veterans had it going there for a while. They built a society both times on sound principles and values that worked.
And it’s not like these lesson and values we picked up in war are so uncommon or hard to find. They aren’t magical, mystical lessons and great insights we got that other people never acquire. No, everybody eventually learns these things. Being in combat brings them home early in life that’s all. I’ve often said, “I went over there 21 years old - I came back 75 years old”. Of course not literally but attitude wise. What we learned in combat in one short year usually takes a lifetime to learn without the combat.
But after a while I started to see that most of the “friends” I had before the war pretty much stayed clear of me after the war. I wondered about that. How’d that happen? And I saw a part of me that wasn’t there before the war. A very quick but short-lived temper. I learned much later that came from the chemicals and parasites I picked up in the jungle. Gone now. But also a part of the non-acceptance when I got home.
Probably the biggest single “thing” I experienced was nobody wanted to talk to us. No one wanted to hear about what we had been through. Not that we could have told them what it was really all about anyway, but no one would listen to us about whatever we wanted to talk about on any subject. Well, I know what it means when you don’t talk to somebody. We all do it. It means you don’t like them and are indeed rejecting them. It’s natural to not talk to people you don’t like. But these were my friends, even family, what happened?
So… No more parades. Complete denial and rejection of the combat veteran. It didn’t matter that, individually, we thought we were fighting for the same things the WW II guys were. They made the public think we were baby killers and that we really didn’t love our country. And that somehow we were to be feared instead of accepted.
There’s no more parades for us combat veterans, and the old folks are drugged and shuffled off into nursing homes. We both acquired the same knowledge. Valuable knowledge that should be the living part of any society. Obviously that will NOT be allowed to happen anymore.
Is it a conspiracy? Well, of course it is. Is it the mythical New World Order at work? Of course it is. But I’m not going to get into all that here. I call “them” the Status Quo. Which I cover in my book “The Status Quo”.
Dr. K. R. Sutter II
Chiropractor
Vietnam Veteran
Copyright: 2006