Honor and Guts: Vietnam Combat Vet Speaks Out On the Need to Stand Up in Defense of Our Constitution

101st Airborne - the "Screaming Eagle"

About time! I had about given up hope that there were still people in this country with the Honor & Guts to stand up and be counted when it came to defending the very Document that created this great Nation we love. I cannot begin to express the pride & pleasure in finding out that there are so many of us that still believe in the sacredness of the oath we made to support the Constitution of These United States.

It is my greatest Honor to join you, my Brothers in Arms, to follow in the footsteps of our Founders in pledging my Life, my Fortune & my Sacred Honor to this Cause.

When the Call goes out, count me in. I may be getting "old & decrepit", but I'm still a "dead-shot".

It's time to say "Enough is enough!!!" to the Powers That Be who are, on a daily basis, trying to tear apart & adulterize the very Foundation of our Country, the Constitution, in their power hungry attempts to plant their boots on the necks of the American People & way of life.


As for an idea of my background, I'm the eldest of an Army family. My Step-father was an Infantry 1SGT who'd served in WWII, Korea & Viet Nam. I spent 7 years in the Army (first half of it as an Intel Analyst in Nam & the second half as a Tank Commander at Ft. Hood & in Germany) and 6 years in the Navy as a HM2 (Corpsman/MedLabTech).

My tour in Nam was mainly at Phu Bai & points north. After being stationed at the 8th RRFS/Phu Bai, I requested transfer to our DSU with the 101st ABN/AMBL at Camp Eagle. Note: I was NOT drafted...I enlisted. I also requested orders for Nam coming out of AIT & I requested assignment to the 101st both for the same reason....I believed in what we were doing.

I just want to make sure that it's understood that I wasn't an 11Bush (ground pounder/grunt). I did my part. I especially enjoyed calling in arty strikes on the fixes we'd get from our ARDF (airborne radio direction finding ) units we had flying in our AO, but I'd like it understood that I didn't have it as rough as our guys who were in the thick of it. Those guys deserve all the respect we can give them for the job they did.

Note: I'm standing just to the right of the Company Guidon.

Needless to say, while there, I had my eyes opened as to the REAL government of these United States and it is NOT the government our Fore Fathers intended. And everything I've seen in my life since then has just verified what I'd learned. It's time to go back to our roots, to the Constitutions and all it entails.

I'm part of that generation that remembers what happened in the world the last century and it MUST NOT be allowed to happen in America today. Our decedents MUST have a better future in store for them than what today's Powers That Be have in mind for them.

God Bless America

William Ward
Nam Vet (98C-ASA; 11E-2d AD)

"NUTS!" - An old vet keeps the Oath

Gun confiscation in America? In the words of General Anthony Clement McAuliffe, "NUTS!"

Brigadier General McCauliffe was in command of the 101st Airborne Division and other Army forces at the key town of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. German forces surrounded the outnumbered defenders, cutting them off from supply and reinforcement. But the scrappy American troops rebuffed every attack and held on through two days of fierce battle. Knowing the Americans were low on supplies, the German commander offered McAuliffe the chance to surrender. McAuliffe's one-word reply was "Nuts." This became arguably the most famous single statement in World War II and a symbol of the determination to defeat Nazi Germany.

An old vet keeps the Oath
by Robert Muchnick
USN vet

FINALLY, Americans taking a stand for what is right. I have been looking for you for years.

I am a Vietnam era U.S. Navy veteran, long since discharged from service. Unlike many of the distinguished folks who've posted their testimonials here, my service was less than remarkable, but I did serve, during a time of undeclared war, and volunteered to boot.

When you're eighteen, you maybe believe the "fighting for freedom" and "keeping the world safe for democracy [sic]" stuff because you don't know any better. In the decades since my oath of service, I learned the difference -- painfully -- between "government" and the Constitution; they aren't the same, and are often antithetical to each other. Back in the days of 'Nam, we were ostensibly fighting against a Fascist/Communist tyranny. Now it looks as if we've become one.

I took the oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I never renounced it and it didn't have an expiration date. It also said nothing about the President, the Congress or the Supreme Court. It said the Constitution because it is that greatest of political documents which enshrines the freedom that was America.

The right of defense of oneself, one's family and way of life is a right inherent in all creatures and flows from Nature herself. It is not a right emanating from a benign "government" which can be bestowed or withdrawn by it on a whim. The right of defense exists prior even to the Constitution itself. The same can be said of liberty because liberty without the right of defense is an illusion. The Founding Fathers knew that government can grow to be the enemy of the people's freedom and so put in place measures for "the security of a free State."

There is conflict brewing on the near horizon for this country, of that there can be no doubt. I may be slower and not as strong as I was four decades ago, but I will stand with anyone here to defend freedom and our Constitution for the people of this nation, by whatever means are necessary. The citizen soldier built this nation and the loyal members of the armed and police forces defended it, and we the people will now save it from destruction.

Gun confiscation in America? In the words of General Anthony Clement McAuliffe, "NUTS!"

Molon Labe!

Robert Muchnick
USN vet