From: Kari
Date: 10/1/01
Time: 11:15:38 PM
Jasper,
I am speaking about all the misinformation that has been given out about Vietnam, O.J. Simpson trial sort. How can anyone know the truth when we don't know what the truth is. How do we know for sure about the Mi Lai Massacre. How will we ever know if the one man who says Kerry led the slaughter of the people in that incident or the six others who say he didn't. I am not saying that you were not there because you were. You know what you saw and what you have researched. What isn't known is how this really began other than the French left and all hell broke loose. We have several different administrations where we have to wonder what was the truth and what was not. No way was I being negative about your knowledge or anything of that source. Just as looking at the different angles of what is going on right now we don't know how it will end and perhaps with the stated secrecy that has been okayed by Congress. There is much about every war we have ever been in whether this Country or any other Country, there are secrets which may someday be revealed but basically no, the secrets will not come out that because there are things that people don't want to be revealed. Governments are secretive by nature. Of course you know what Vietnam was like you were there. I know what it is to have PTSD but not from WAR so I understand having that and the panic that comes with it. But I also know you don't compare a civilians PTSD with a case of WAR PTSD, Ex soldiers don't like it. So I don't. I don't minimize the damage done to soldiers under any circumstances whether all volunteer army or the draft. War is something no one can understand until they have fought in one.