More combat time with the 199th and more lessons learned?

Initially, I thought that outlining several of the combat missions I experienced during my time in Vietnam and Cambodia, might help you understand the parallels between then and now.

That thought process came from taking part in the killing machine that eventually resulted in the Paris Peace Accords being signed by the North Vietnamese and "A cessation of hostilities and withdrawal of troops", being the end result. That came after 1.1 million were killed and 600,000 wounded.

Moving forward from then to today, as I see it, the boys that pulled off the Boston Marathon bombing were, at one time, immigrants who slipped across the border, participated in food stamps, welfare and education at YOUR expense, but even a free ride didn't change the really that they had on their minds. The radicalization, while they were in Chechnya,  or however you spell it, led them across the border into our Country, to do one thing. We all know what that ended up being.

If you want me to, I'll throw in a few more stories of what it was like in 1970 and 1971, and hope that you might connect the dots between then and now. That's the point.