The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
There are many respects in which America if it can bring itself to act with...
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown as an intern but I already had a job.