I don't know what to make of this...via Sgt Grit....

via Sgt Grit.

Mike's platoon was in the Quang Tri province of Vietnam, as far north as you can get while still being in South Vietnam. More ordnance and agent orange was dropped there than anyplace else in the entire war. That's where the most vicious firefights took place. During one such firefight, he watched over half of his platoon get killed and his best friend earn the Medal of Honor posthumously. Mike was shot in the foot. It was some time before they were able to medivac him out because of the firefighting. After triage in a military hospital in Germany, they sent him back to the states for some convalescent leave. He never went back. Between the time he returned from Germany until the day he ended up at the nursing home, Mike lived on the streets. When he got to the nursing home he was half dead from alcohol.

I've heard the stories and read the official history of combat in that region during the Vietnam War.

Wild and wooly doesn't describe it.

They absolutely did the right thing.... I can see the arguments against, but in the end I agree with it.

Read the whole story here.