Walking on a Thin Line

When you listen to this song, keep in mind it was written for and about our Vietnam Veterans. Young men who answered the call of our government then were rejected by society when they returned.
Vietnam was not a popular war. Wars should never be popular. When we committed to protecting South Vietnam it was a necessary one.
We had vital interests in Vietnam. It was a small country, but we were dependent on it's rubber. Today synthetics have replaced natural rubber in many things. In 1954 it was vital to our economy and to our growth. Rubber got us off the trains and into the back country. Rubber fueled the growth and the freedom express. Innovation made it obsolete by 1972 and our government abandoned the people of Vietnam and the people who fought the battles to keep it free.
We should have fought to win. We were capable and nearly did win it save for the politicians who stabbed our troops in the back. Instead, we allowed the people of Vietnam to fall into communism's net where many were slaughtered. Just like in China, Just like in Russia, just like what will happen here if we elect Sanders and his kind. Freedom is never free. Thank a Vet. They earned it for us.