You sound like a relative of mine - he only got married and have a child to stay out of the war. He was a f**king wimp. The women and children stayed home, obviously that includes you.
The ones with strong convictions stayed home along with those who had a high draft number.
Q 1.Tell me this, how do you think the US military is remembered in Viet Nam by the people?
Q 2.Tell me how you think they feel about those who's protests, forced the military to leave the invaded territory?
Answer 1 I've read a lot about Veterans who returned to Vietnam years after the war. They were surprised at how well they were welcomed by the Vietnamese. They were afraid that there may be some hostility by those who fought or were wounded in the war. The opposite was true. When they visited the areas that they had fought in during the war, they found Vietcong troops who still live in that area who welcomed them and were eager to discuss the battles they had fought against each other. Politically, the people of Vietnam seem to blame the government of the United States for that war, but not the troops. (A fact that L4Life will never understand) BTW, Vietnam Veterans of America has a program to help the Vietnamese find MIA's that war. Many of the North Vietnamese and VietCong were buried in place with no marker for their grave. VVA collects information from VVA veterans and sends it to the Viet govt to help locate those graves.
Answer 2 I've only read a little about your question. It seems that the majority of Vietnamese were oblivious of the protesters in the USA at the time. Most had no knowledge of any protest here. Most Vietnamese think that THEY won the war against the Americans and the protests here were a non event.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The ones with strong convictions stayed home along with those who had a high draft number.
Draft number?... Didn't exist in my time there.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
It's just absurd that the protestors think they actually influenced the end of the Veitnam conflict, when they had ABSOUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH IT AND DID NOT INFLUENCE ANYTHING!!!
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
Invading other countries and killing the citizens is much more offensive to me. And what was your position on Pearl Harbor - should we not have fought back? We were invaded and citizens were killed. And what was your position on 9/11 - should we not have fought back? We were invaded and citizens were killed. And what was your position on the bombings in our embassys - should we not fight back? We were invaded (sovereign territory) and our citizens were killed. And what was your position on the Beatles? We were invaded and citizens are dead.
The persons that accept murder of the innocent are the ones that need help. So, you're admitting you need help? You're accepting the murder of the innocent (ambassadors, civilian workers in the World Trade Centers, etc).
Don't stand up and claim to be proud of a despicable act in a conversation with me.
Sure, I need meds, for being one of them trouble making peace wanting extremists that will not shut up about murderous acts. Ok, show me your outrage over the embassy murders ... I'll wait.
Romney has worked very hard to become an Americans Caricature, by his lifestyle but even more so by his words:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
RUSTY....Stop using logical reasoning and common sense....you're going to give Loser4Life a fit and they'll have to up his meds (that are being paid for with Government funding)!!!!
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
RUSTY....Stop using logical reasoning and common sense....you're going to give Loser4Life a fit and they'll have to up his meds (that are being paid for with Government funding)!!!!
Notice, he stopped responding - maybe they finally kicked in. When presented with an adult conversation, WHO retreated?
Typical liberal (I'd call him a "libertarian, but I don't want to insult the others on here, with whom I'm able to have an adult conversation, and while I don't agree with all their viewpoints (nor they mine), we can have a respectful, civilized, adult conversation without a spitting match.
It's just absurd that the protestors think they actually influenced the end of the Veitnam conflict, when they had ABSOUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH IT AND DID NOT INFLUENCE ANYTHING!!!
Sure, and Kent State had nothing to do with it either.
You seem to have missed the entire sixties and early seventies.
And what was your position on Pearl Harbor - should we not have fought back? We were invaded and citizens were killed. And what was your position on 9/11 - should we not have fought back? We were invaded and citizens were killed. And what was your position on the bombings in our embassys - should we not fight back? We were invaded (sovereign territory) and our citizens were killed. And what was your position on the Beatles? We were invaded and citizens are dead.
Pearl Harbor, yes, we declared war. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, terrorism.
9/11 we were attacked by Saudis. We completely ignored them.
Iraq? No. We invaded on a false premise of weapons of mass destruction threatening us.
Embassy's? You don't want to wait until we actually know who did what? You just want to start bombing and killing anyone in the vicinity?
The Beatles? Only Paul died and he wasn't an American.
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You're accepting the murder of the innocent (ambassadors, civilian workers in the World Trade Centers, etc).
Well you really can't retaliate against dead Saudis.
What do you want to do, just kill some random Saudis?
Ambassadors. I believe arrests have been made.
You want to spill some innocent blood to teach the countries a lesson?
That would be terrorism.
The embassy deaths are outrageous.
I believe in using the proper authorities to deal with crimes in other countries.
Arrests have been made and investigations are continuing.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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