Vietnam vets reluctant to tell war stories..

Hey guys, just found the newsgroup after having waded about in
the WWII newsgroup.

I'm not a complete novice about the war, I volunteered and did
my 4 years in the USAF starting in 1976, got to work on the
first batch of F-15's to come out of St. Louis.

My question to REAL Vietnam vets (not to someone wanting
to give their anti-war views) is why it was so hard to get someone
after they got back from war to tell me what they had been through,
particularly when I was in high school 1972-5 and particularly before
that, Junior HS 1970-2.

Now there's a plethora of films out there to watch, but it seems
they all have some kind of spin to give, and there's few that just
show a real story (maybe Full Metal Jacket, but even that seems
overboard in places, particularly in basic - did any of you know
of someone who went ballistic and killed their DI?)

Maybe you're already burned out on people like me, but I've got
a friend who was in the Mogadishu thing, and he's had no problem
letting me know what went down, even showed me the round he
got hit with.

Oh well, I'll shut up and hope some one responds, and thank you
guys for putting your asses on the line for me.

Paul