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To: oh8eleven

I looked and started to cry. I knew several who died while I luckily served domestically in 1969. It was a controversial war especially with leaders that were not in it to win it.


35 posted on 05/23/2014 11:55:29 AM PDT by cmwy
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To: cmwy

Me too. I can hardly bear to look at anything to do with Viet Nam. It was so horrible I try to forget about it. My brother in law was a river rat and he can’t talk about any of it without crying. I had friends who didn’t make it and friends who either got injured badly or are emotional wrecks from it.


36 posted on 05/23/2014 12:07:24 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: cmwy

Our politicians were definitely refusing to let America win that war. There was too much treason in D.C. to permit that. Our pro-Red betrayers in government were at the same time permitting trade with communist countries,who in turn, were using said aid to help their buddies in Hanoi to kill Americans in Viet Nam.


38 posted on 05/23/2014 12:31:18 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: cmwy
leaders that were not in it to win it...
I think that fueled more of the anti-war sentiment among the young than people today realize. It was clear by 1971 that the war had descended into a stalemate that could not be won without attacking North Viet Nam directly, which politics prevented. A lot of us, myself included, did not want to die in the quagmire of a ‘limited’ war. There should be no such thing. I got drafted and served, albeit reluctantly.
40 posted on 05/23/2014 12:39:07 PM PDT by Old North State
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