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Hey Hey LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?
My brother-in-law is dying from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Slowly, inexorably, he is losing muscular function. He is in a hospice in Florida, near Mount Dora. His illness is the result of chemical exposure in Vietnam, during his combat service in 1969, most likely Agent Orange. The VA recognizes the disease as service-related, but won’t definitively attribute it to Agent Orange exposure. There isn’t much difference and he’s dying no matter what caused the disease.
I haven’t felt very motivated lately, bronchitis and allergies. Just discouraged. I don’t feel like exercising or watching what I eat.
We are leaving for Florida in the morning. J wants to see her brother one more time. The drive will be excruciating, both going down and coming back.
Damn Lyndon Johnson, Ho Chi Minh, John McCone, Gen. Giap. The whole fuckin’ bunch.
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Oh, I remember that chant so clearly! And who was it – Country Joe and the Fish? At Woodstock, doing their song with the lines, “Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.” That’s so sad about your brother-in-law. I’m sorry you didn’t’ get to see him again.
Thank you. Yes it was Country Joe. I think back to that whole mess. I don’t think Johnson had any intention of winning in Vietnam, defined as defeating the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. Just one series of blunders after another that we are still paying for today.
Tragically true And a war that in someways continues to divide the country even now.
Yes. It will take a little longer for the scars to go away, both here and in Vietnam.
Yes. And in the meantime, we’re busy creating new wounds…
Oh, give my Femdom story Absolute Service a look too.