HUME: Finally tonight, Senator Bill Nelson was describing how much better things are today for returning American soldiers then it was for the GIs who came back from Vietnam. But it seems, for officers like him who are returning from Vietnam, well, things were really pretty good.

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SEN BILL NELSON, (D) FLORIDA: There is such respect for our troops now. That was not necessarily the case all the time back then when I was in the military. Certainly all the intercourse that I had as a military officer was the best. But that was not the case for a lot of our returning soldiers.

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HUME: Well Senator, we are certainly glad to know that. That is Special Report for this time.

I can’t wait for their story on military penal colonies in Iraq and Cuba.

I also sought to “giao cấu” but as a GI had to wait my turn.