April's Fools

Lookit these chumps! Weren't smart enough to get student deferments, I s'pose.

1 April 1968 - The first sergeant of A Company, 101st Airborne Division, guiding a medevac helicopter
through jungle foliage to pick up casualties suffered during a five-day patrol near Hue.
(AP Photo/Art Greenspon, File)

Wintenburg shares that pride, though he is perhaps more sanguine about what led him to that moment.

"We didn't really have a choice back then," he said. "We did what we had to do."

No, what you had to do was move to Canada, not be a complete fucking sheep.