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Veterans best honored by putting stop to war

Steve Hanken

May. 17, 2014 1:00 pm

Lest we forget the Gulf of Tonkin was a false flag created by our government to go to war with vigor in Vietnam. It did not happen, it is not history, unless you document it as a fraud that made billions of dollars for the military industrial complex in this country and cost the lives of 58,000-plus in a needless war.

I am a two-tour veteran of that war and, no, it was not a 'conflict,” it was a war. The lessons I gained from my experience were decidedly different from the hoopla surrounding the anniversary of its beginning. If the nation wants to honor us for our service, stop making veterans and war something that never ends in this country.

Steve Hanken

Cedar Rapids

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