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Tom Wallace is the author of five sports-related books and one novel, What Matters Blood. Wallace, a Vietnam veteran, currently lives in Lexington, Ky.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, September 22, 2006 Iraq: Echoes of Vietnam
As a Vietnam vet, I can't begin to express how angry it makes me to hear men who have never worn the uniform, much less been in combat, tell me I'm not patriotic because I don't believe now, nor did I believe prior to Shock and Awe, that invading Iraq was a wise or necessary act.