If anyone is ignorant of history it is you.
My father was a B-17 bombardier with the 8th Air Force 390th Bomb Group in WW2.
He flew bombing missions over Regensburg, Schweinfurt, Frankfurt, Cologne and other German cities.
He never proclaimed that “we protected civilians”. His job was to kill civilians, not protect them.
In WW2 we dropped millions of tons of bombs on Germany and Japan and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. It diminished their will and ability to resist which is why we won.
Our job was to stop communist expansionism in Southeast Asia, NOT to protect civilians. We failed to do that. Vietnam was a humiliating defeat and there is very little to be proud of.
I never smeared you or anyone else who served in Vietnam. Stop with the pathetic strawman arguments.
You even smear your own Dad: the 8th Air Force heroically bombed in broad daylight - unlike the Brits who bombed at night and their objective was to wreck cities - to precisely hit military targets. The mission at Schweinfurt was to hit the German ball bearing factories and Regensburg to attack the Messerschmitt factory. They took huge losses to fighters and flak to hit those targets and spare as many civilians as possible. They were heroes in the true sense of the word - but you aren’t: you were of the age to serve in Vietnam, weren’t you? You hid out and now you justify things by trying to tar all of us who did fight. Here I just thought you were a lefty troll but I now I know you for who you really are - a coward who didn’t risk anything and even smears his own Father and the valiant aviators who flew with him.
You seem quite concerned about the less than 500 civilians murdered at My Lai. How about the est. 5K citizens of Hue’ murdered by VC/NVA during Tet?