An alternate perspective

Dear Editor,

I read with much interest the letter from Olivia Fowler and was following her train of thought until she got to the part where she called President Trump a draft-dodger and then attacked Trump for his comments about McCain. My perspective on these two items are so much different than hers.

First, I don’t hold any ill feelings toward anyone who avoided going to Vietnam. This was a conflict and was never a declared war halfway around the globe in a country we knew nothing about, and most of us had no interest in their affairs. President Johnson (Democrat) turned “giving help to some insurgents” into a full-scale debacle that cost the lives of more than 50,000 brave Americans. This was the first war the USA ever lost! I have friends that are very proud of their service in Vietnam, and I am proud of them, but again, I hold no ill feelings toward others who could legally avoid going. Thank God President Nixon (Republican) ended our involvement.

Secondly, I will remember McCain as a very bitter, hateful senator who with his last words on

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