i remember once asking dad if he ever killed someone.

he didn't say anything for a long time. it made

me wonder. I'm sure dad killed someone though. i mean,

isn't that what you do in wars? plus, my teacher back then

said he probably did. she told me that every solder kills,

and that's what makes them bad. i was young, i

didn't understand at the time. i didn't think my dad

was bad though. mom always told me that he went

over to Vietnam, because he loved America and wanted to

keep Communism from coming to here. i always wondered what

communism even was. i didn't understand why the president just

didn't keep it out. but now that I'm older, i

can wrap my head around the Vietnam. from what i

can tell, it seems that Vietnam was a political war

more than anything.