But we all
served. I am just as certain that some of your generation were more than
willing to serve in combat but didn't end up there. My dad volunteered for
but
was washed out of pilot training because of color blindness. He ended up
spending the war at Laredo TX working on high altitude research for the the
B-29 development.



I can't speak for a generation, but in 1942 my greatest fear was that the war
would end before I got there and I would miss the adventure of a lifetime.
And
many of us felt exactly that way back then. It didn't end and I got there.
But
I was very young and idealistic back then..But if I had it to do it all over
again, I would do it the same

I am trying to make the point here that I don't think many of us in the late
60s had an overwhelming desire to go to Vietnam and kill other human beings, a
view that had little to do with willingness to serve in a useful capacity
during those days or with courage. I have seen no evidence that Buch didn't
serve in a useful capacity and honorably despite the efforts of some to
distort. What has been proffered as examples appear to me to be pretty much
unexceptional AF documents of the era. You could probably infer the same from
mine as folks have been from those of GWB in my first four years in the AF.