To say I'm disappointed would be a gross mischaracterization. It was my generation that faced the tragedy known as the Vietnam War. And unlike previous political conflicts that drew the collective national spirit together through reason and purpose (including "The Cold War") with Vietnam, there were more of us against it, than were for it.
Now, here we are again, invading another country, killing its citizens, and having the lives of American sons and daughters taken from us in return, with no goal or conclusion in sight.
Where is my generation that promised this wouldn't ever happen again, that we were tired of those who fabricated conflicts and bloody wars that seem to serve no purpose other than to thin out the growing population, to acquire the riches of others, and to consolidate power so that robbing other countries of their resources would be easier the next time?
I'm not merely disappointed, I'm downright angry. I want my generation, the one that agreed and proclaimed with absolute certainty that war was a thing of the past, and that fictitious events, like the Gulf of Tonkin incident that was used to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam would never be used to draw us into war again... to stand up at the ballot box, and begin correcting the mistakes we've been living with during the current administration.
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