quote for the day

Listen to the words of a veteran:

"We're supposed to be saving these people and obviously we are not looked on as the saviors here. They can't like us a whole lot. If we came into a village, there was no flag waving, nobody running out to throw flowers at us, no pretty young girls coming out to give us kisses as we march though victorious. 'Oh, here come the fucking Americans again. Jesus, when are they going to learn?'"

from: The Viet Nam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There, by Mark Baker