While it might be quaint to give space to a letter writer like Thomas Abeyta (“No American Heroes Died in Kuwait”) — this non-teen (he stated a year 2000 birth year) ought to be far far less idealistic and frankly completely ignorant by age 25-26!
Of course the first seven killed in this war are indeed heroes! They served and served with honor and this is completely distinct from your beliefs on the War in Iran itself — no different than the two World Wars or the Korean and Vietnam Wars nor the two Iraq Wars nor the Afghanistan War etc!
As a 67-year-old U.S. Army Medical Corps Veteran who served from 1980-93 and was sworn in on New Year’s Eve 1980, just five years after the end of the Vietnam War ended, I thought this distinction was set in stone soon after; vets are well treated today. Thus, I naturally and blatantly recent this youth’s rather ignorant-laden missive wherein he exposes his ignorance in an even worse manner with his awful denunciation of our lost Army officers and NCOs — how pathetically horrid!
Get educated young man and grow up — you are entitled to your opinion no matter its content, thanks to our Nation’s military and history for 1/4-millennium in less than four months. You’d do well to check yourself and do some real research into our nation’s even recent history just since World War One say … before expressing such blather in the future.
Contrary to that, should you continue on your dark path, you might consider living in an actual alternative universe — there are choices aplenty sadly in our world today — rather than the mythical one that resides in your head!
Jeffrey W Glassheim
MAJ, USA (Ret)
