Does this look like someone who wants to go to war? This is me at age 19. I had just finished all my Marine Corps training and I was waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. It is an experience I will never forget. I haven't regretted going there, yet I would never advise anyone to go to war. It would have to be their own descision. I never advised my sons to go into the military, and they never did and I was glad. My father spent 20 years in the Navy. My grandfather spent 30 years in the Army. I broke the tradition. My father wanted for me so bad to make the military my career. I was not one bit interested in it. I spent 18 months in the Marine Corps and saw all the action I cared to see and got out & never looked back. My father apologized profusely on his death bed for doing all he could to try to get me to get into the military when I wasn't really interested in it. I did not think I would come out alive and I'm sure other didn't think I would either. I was always a peaceful person. I never liked to fight, but here I was at age 19 in the middle of a war. Somehow God spared me and I lived to tell about it. Please go to www.therealmikebailey.blogspot.com and read about my Vietnam experience along with other writings.