First, I am a Vet who missed going to VN by ~8mo; but still saw plenty especially took care of WW1, WW2, Korea, VN, Beirut, 1st GW & few others as a USN / USMC Corpsman, later as a USN Nurse Corps Officer. Also saw over 30 countries while in Uniform. Took care of many POW's. It took me a little while to get to watching this. Most Vets (esp those in Medical) learn to use Humor to keep coming to work, and later sometimes get thru our bad PTSD days. Those who went to VN had it worst to the point that Confederate Soldiers were treated better until recently. Those Hippies sadly are todays Professors ... that called (and some still show disrespect) returning Soldiers "Baby Killers" / Etc. VN Vets only had each other and their Families at home on their side. So when you think of that, then someone did something to go home early were seen as Traitors, due to the Media, and Hippies etc were calling them negative terms. I bet most of those Hippies/Media types who burned their Draft Cards would have been the types who would have joined Hanoi Jane Fonda. I wonder if Jane Fonda had a part of this Characters choosing to give up? Same Year that this soldier came home early, as when Jane Fonda was at the Hanoi Hilton POW Camp of 1972. Jane Fonda, Donald Southerland, and few other actors did "ANTI-USO" Tours in Vietnam. Another reason some gave up seeing her with their Captors, and playing with anti aircraft guns. These are things that even some Vietnam Vets (& POWs) didn't know until a few years after VN was over, for the Media and gov't blacked those stories out as they did with the Letters. Most Vets / POWs will forgive their Brother/Sister in arms before they will forgive Jane Fonda. So before getting angry with this Pilot agreeing to do Propaganda for the VN Captors, think about how the Country treated them. What they are doing to Confederate Statues today (Which should have been done years / decades ago) is what protesters did to "LIVE" Veterans returning from Vietnam.
OH the Title is from SG1 "Fragile Balance" episode of 2003.
OH the Title is from SG1 "Fragile Balance" episode of 2003.