Journal 4

Sept. 19. 2013.

                        Well what the G.I.s had to experience during the Vietnam War was very rough, not only physically but mentally as well. The number of people coming back with symptoms of PTSD was larger and larger. That number still grows today. But as in the Vietnam War our soldiers had other things to contend with as they went home. These being the people they came back to. America now having seen the first televised war were able to see the violence of war and all the death.

           People began to disrespect and hate their involvement in the war although many people who were in the where drafted. People getting forced to join a war effort they didn't believe in. These people slandered our G.I.s and labeled them baby killers and murderers for being part of a war they didn't want to join. The disrespect and hatred they received was completely wrong and Ill directed. How could someone sit there and harp on a person who was thrown into a war that they didn't want to join.