If you think it's bad now, it gets even better. . . I recently met a "South Vietnamese military officer" who was airlifted to our country at the end of the Vietnam War. We met in a grocery store as he was eying up my wife's food cart. We had a modest amount of groceries in our cart for our monthly shopping trip.
My wife, a dear heart who saves lost animals, children and old people, smiled at him and said hello. A conversation began and we found out a little about his past military experience and how he came to be here in America. He eventually arrived at a place where he began to tell us about his current situation.
To him, we appeared to be flaunting our wealth. I could see the anger in his eyes as he said to us, "you must be very rich". I could have laughed. We shop carefully, putting things back that seem frivolous. Frugal would be the way to describe it. Once we got to talking though, he realized we are OK folks.
He said in Vietnam, he was a General of great power and wealth, now an unemployed nobody without means. Not able to buy enough food for his family etc. and he is pissed off about it. He said the government had promised he and his family much, much more. Instead, he was left to his own means.
One of the things he said was that he is not the only one out there, those people (I believe he was referring to us) in the country and in and outside the city who have a lot, are the ones who are going to pay. He and his people are fed up and will take what is coming to them, one day, one way or another.
This guy is in his late sixties early seventies. On Social Security and gave the impression that he was speaking for his "people". I found this conversation to be enlightening to say the very least.
Could be just some goofy old man but he did not appear to be a goofy old man.
Rather, filled with pride, intelligent and well spoken. A man without a country and no place to turn, proverbial back against the wall.
I hope he remembers us in a good light.
FREEDOM ~ LIBERTY ~ LOVE OF LIFE~ FREE MAN~ WE THE PEOPLE!
