Vietnam's veterans ponder what the future holds for today's warriors

"I don't relate," said Mary Jane Shipley of her post-traumatic stress disorder and flashbacks, 40 years after serving as a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital nurse during the Vietnam war. "Nurses see profound loss day after day," she said. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Vietnam's veterans ponder what the future holds for today's warriors
By Matthew D. LaPlante
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 03/16/2008 05:35:20 AM MDT

Five years and more than 1 million deployments later, the fog of war remains every bit as thick as it was when the United States invaded Iraq.

But with a strong majority of Americans calling for an end to the war, with the U.S. military stretched perilously thin and with some recent, albeit tenuous, indications that security in Iraq has improved, the years ahead appear to promise fewer deployments, if not outright retreat.

Yet for many of those who return, the war will not be over.

And no one knows better what the future holds for today's veterans than those who returned from another horrible fight, more than three decades ago.
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