OK, explain this and help me understand better.

Explain to me why, after seeing the Vietnam Memorial in DC, you are not completely opposed sending another generation of American boys and girls off to die for nothing.

Explain to me why it took my brother-in-law, my wife's only brother, 42 years to die by drowning in his own fluids from the Agent Orange he was sprayed with in his role as a mine sapper who won two Bronze stars there.

Explain to me why two boys I taught in school and who were killed there who should by now be spoiling their grandkids instead of dying at age 19.
Explain to me why, after the debacle known as Vietnam, you would again send another generation of America's children off to die for nothing.

Explain to me why the USA should not have a universal draft of all Americans - starting at age 50 or so.

Explain to me why you think of war as a first rather than a last, tragic option.