Vietnam Veterans Chapter 1071 meets on the 3rd Saturday of each month at the Elks Lodge #1777, 1455 Newland St, Lakewood, CO at 10 AM. On that Saturday the Elks serve an excellent breakfast starting at 8:00 AM, $6. Our mission: “Never again will one generation of veterans abandon another.”

​Donald Trump is a pompous ass who, like Dick Cheney, did everything he could to avoid serving in Vietnam. Still, I have to agree with him on one narrow point: John McCain is not a war hero. His class ranking at Annapolis was 894 out of 899. Still, he was admitted to flight training because his father and grandfather were both four star admirals. It took him two and a half years to earn his wings, a process that usually takes less than a year and half.