"He was among the first batch of soldiers to serve in the Vietnam War; that was actually his second attempt to enlist. When he was eighteen and first tried to join the military, he got rejected in the tests—his IQ wasn't high enough. The army said we don't need idiots, go home. So, he obediently went home, got married, and had children. Then the Vietnam War broke out, and the recruiters came knocking again. This time, they told the man who had become an excellent carpenter that now the country needed this 'idiot' to serve."
"My father didn't refuse. I was just a child then, but I will always remember my mother, crying, asking him why—when those bastards had so cruelly shamed him during his first attempt to join the military by calling him an idiot, unfit to serve—why he was still willing to serve now! Why?"
