kind of dangerous, what with me being one of those unstable, Marine, Viet vet types.

I gently pointed out that we sent a total of 3 million soldiers and Marines there over the years, sometimes 500,000 were in the country at the same time. We had control of the air, helicopters, tanks, unlimited supplies, all the ammo we could use, and modern technology. We outnumbered North Vietnam more than 100 to 1. They lost 1 million soldiers and 2 million civilians. South Vietnam lost about 200,000 soldiers and 1 million civilians. We lost 58,000 dead and another 150,000 wounded.

I asked him if he wanted a wider war than that? What victory did you want?

Then I asked him if he had been in the service. Yup. Navy supply clerk. I was getting a little wound up at this point and called him a fucking pogue and left the area.

He probably fought in his own way..... never retreated, but he probably backspaced a few times.