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Originally Posted by jimbuna
How many times were you sent into Nam to get US personnel back?
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Jim, I was never in Nam. There have been other conflicts since that time. Not all were called wars. But having a brother or brothers that you know didn't come home, and should have - especially when your team was ready to go and at least give them an eff'ing chance - only to never get the word.....
Combat is never "fun", its never something you enter into lightly - if you do I sure as heck don't want you anywhere near me.... But there are times when you would embrace it because the fight is worth it.
The Israeli government just put its citizenry at risk by letting 1000+ terrorists go to save one man. Soldiers are almost always duty driven to take that risk for each other. The situation is always fluid, but sometimes wrong decisions are made that cost lives that could have been saved. I didn't like it then, and I won't like it till the day I leave this earth.