"For many years afterward I wondered what had happened to my brother in that strange land on the other side of the world. I never asked and he never told. It was not as if I didn't want to understand what it was like to be a soldier in Vietnam. To be shot at. To be wounded. But I respected my brother's right to peace and silence on the matter. By the time he returned to the states, the popularity of Vietnam vets hovered somewhere near that of Hollywood 'Commies' in the 1950s."
"For many years afterward I wondered what had happened to my brother in that strange land on the other side of the world. I never asked and he never told. It was not as if I didn't want to understand what it was like to be a soldier in Vietnam. To be shot at. To be wounded. But I respected my brother's right to peace and silence on the matter. By the time he returned to the states, the popularity of Vietnam vets hovered somewhere near that of Hollywood 'Commies' in the 1950s."
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