I remember several years back a retired Major General came to West Point to talk to cadets and the department of foreign languages and caught my attention as he recalled a sergeant first class who had served with him in Vietnam and quoted that man as having said "War is so beastly that it should be left to the least beastly of us". The Sergeant first class in question gave his life a few months later in South East Asia. I've enjoyed reading the comments on this page (even the so called liberal ones) and after 27 years, I'm still glad to be a soldier. Charles