what the government believed that purpose requires.” (PFC. Elmore) The United States did this in order to slow down aggression. And they did this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam -- and all who seek to share their conquest -- of a simple fact: We weren’t going to be defeated. We knew that air attacks alone will not accomplish all of these purposes but it was our best and prayerful judgment that they are a necessary part of the surest road to peace” (PFC. Elmore.) After the conflict, according to Elmore, we have arrived at peace. Have we reached that point yet? “Though the fighting has stopped, the war continues within the minds of those veterans who survived. “I never knew that all that struggle and fighting would lead to the terrible sickness that I have been diagnosed with. There isn’t a night that I go to sleep that passes that I don’t see the faces of those who have been slaughtered and butchered simply for peace. Was peace worth it?” (PFC. Elmore)The answer to all this lies behind the United States government. Though we shall never know if its lasting effects was worth the fighting we have learned from our mistakes. ...
