Vietnam Veterans

Your headline “Vietnam Veteran Gives Up in 4 Slayings” (Dec. 11) entices me to write that I see no reason to state that a crime was committed by a Vietnam veteran. Often, when a headline as this is shown in the news, I as a Vietnam veteran, have been asked, “So Jim, when will you flip out and shoot up my enemies for me?”

When will this type of headline that tends to stereotype Vietnam veterans as unstable and violent cease to exist?

JIM McHARG, Agoura