Comments on: A Call to Read and Write Stories http://www.vietnamwardraftstories.com/blog Called To Serve: Stories of Men and Women Affected by the Vietnam Draft Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:56:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tom Weiner http://www.vietnamwardraftstories.com/blog/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Tom Weiner Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:20:15 +0000 #comment-336 <p>Dear Nick,<br /> Thanks so much for your continued attention and interaction with my blog. Your point about the quantitative difference between the wars vis a vis numbers of families affected and conscripted vs. volunteer army are extremely important for understanding what allows this war to go on relatively unencumbered by protest. I also appreciate the way you separated that issue from the real purpose of my blog, which you stated so well in your final sentence - "that the issues and the people are the same.". In keeping with this devastatingly crucial similarity between the wars, I have chosen to change the web address of the blog to www.iraqandvietnamwarstories.com/blog Your thoughtful comment has indeed provided a great segue as well as being tragically true...<br /> Tom</p> Dear Nick,
Thanks so much for your continued attention and interaction with my blog. Your point about the quantitative difference between the wars vis a vis numbers of families affected and conscripted vs. volunteer army are extremely important for understanding what allows this war to go on relatively unencumbered by protest. I also appreciate the way you separated that issue from the real purpose of my blog, which you stated so well in your final sentence – “that the issues and the people are the same.”. In keeping with this devastatingly crucial similarity between the wars, I have chosen to change the web address of the blog to http://www.iraqandvietnamwarstories.com/blog Your thoughtful comment has indeed provided a great segue as well as being tragically true…
Tom

]]> By: Nick Warren http://www.vietnamwardraftstories.com/blog/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Nick Warren Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:37:45 +0000 #comment-332 Hi Tom Been reading these slowly. Just read Craig Dreezen's story, and it reminded me of the big difference between Vietnam and Iraq. Not in the substance of the deceptions and the awful blowback from imperialism, but in the difference in the number of lives indirectly affected and formed by the draft. The fact that most of the lives affected are those of 'volunteers' and their families, rather than those of conscripts allows us to distance ourselves from the tragedy and injustice in subtle ways. Your blog is an important reminder that the issues and the people are the same. Keep going Nick Hi Tom

Been reading these slowly. Just read Craig Dreezen’s story, and it reminded me of the big difference between Vietnam and Iraq. Not in the substance of the deceptions and the awful blowback from imperialism, but in the difference in the number of lives indirectly affected and formed by the draft. The fact that most of the lives affected are those of ‘volunteers’ and their families, rather than those of conscripts allows us to distance ourselves from the tragedy and injustice in subtle ways. Your blog is an important reminder that the issues and the people are the same. Keep going

Nick

]]> By: Marie Frank http://www.vietnamwardraftstories.com/blog/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Marie Frank Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:46:53 +0000 #comment-8 Dear Tom, Congratulations on the completion of this stage of your Vietnam project! I've only sampled a bit.... Pretty awesome! Hope Utah was great! Love, Marie Dear Tom,

Congratulations on the completion of this stage of your Vietnam project! I’ve only sampled a bit…. Pretty awesome!

Hope Utah was great!

Love,
Marie

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