"Testvets", military personal, have been used as guinea pigs for much more then just nuclear and the Country refuses still to pony up, 'Sacrifice', including and especially related to it's wars of choice, for decades! Wave flags, cheer on with empty slogans and cheap symbols, blame the agency rather then look in their mirrors, and ignore as the soldier returns and joins our veterans ranks!!
October 13, 2011 - James D. Tyler stuffed cotton balls into his ears and waited for the announcement.
He was kneeling at the bottom of a 6-foot-deep ditch, bearing every piece of his combat gear, too young at 18 to even consider that this might be the end of his life. If it was going to be, he wouldn't be alone. No one in Company F had any better odds.
Except that Tyler, then a grunt in 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, would not go over the ditch into the teeth of the enemy.
He and everyone else knew their orders - hug the side of the ditch, close your eyes, put your face in the crook of your arm. Do not raise your head, under any circumstances.
"It was just before dawn," said Tyler, 72, of Burleson. "We assumed that the people in charge knew what they were doing."
The countdown began, and then everything went blindingly white. read more>>>
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