Posted on 07/06/2014 9:13:11 PM PDT by PROCON
CNN's "The Sixties" episodes started out giving me feelings of nostalgia, as I grew up in that era. The Beatles coming to America and all the great 60's TV shows brought a smile to my face! But then they started getting into the Vietnam War which I really didn't pay attention to until I enlisted in 1969 and spent a year there. I guess I missed the obvious bias of Walter Cronkite etal as they declared us baby killers. One of the CNN segments quoting CBS said US Forces were killing 25,000 Vietnamese civilians a year. Bull crap! Vietnam is when the so called "Rules of Engagement" started where we had to make the fighting "fair". More bullcrap. Anyway, to make point: this CNN series just shows us how bias the mainstream media is 40+ years ago and now.
And it can't forgotten that the American-hating racist John F. Kennedy characterized the great Patriot, Republican Thaddeus Stevens (PA-9th) as "the crippled, fanatical personification of the extremes of the radical Republican movement." That's the kind of unhinged, seething hatred DemonRAT JFK had for a fine Christian man who championed the cause of liberty and freedom.
We won that war. After Nixon resigned the evil leftist Democrat Congress cut off all aid to our allies as the N Viets launched an all out tank assault. Ford went on tv and begged for aid but the sickos wanted the communists to win.
Another little tidbit: the hatred of our ally in the New York Times and MSM was outright racist. The S Viets were depicted as an inferior evil people, incapable of victory.
While music played a big part of social conversion aided by drugs, the driving force for most people was the war and they were fervent about the issue.
The demonstrations and anti-war sentiment grew during Johnson's presidency and the media was easy on him. Then he announced he would not run and Nixon won in '68 after the Bill Ayers inspired riots at the democrat convention.
For a brief time the democrat party was in the crapper. But the war sentiment turned people against the government and Nixon was the government. Since Nixon was a republican, the effort to turn the government around was pushed through democrat voter effort. Had Johnson continued as President, things may have been mush different.
The real catalyst was the shootings at Kent State followed by the CSNY song "Ohio" - 'Tin soldiers and Nixon coming'. The aftermath was the vast majority of the youth becoming democrats, but ironically the mantra most often heard was "government out of our lives". After decades of "question authority" being the underpinning of the free life style social change it is very ironic that the people still hanging on to that philosophy now look to government to run every part of their lives.
Scratch a Utopian ...find a Needy Cult Devotee!!
not so about Forrest Gump-—it portrayed Jenny’s erstwhile “boyfriend” ,an anti-war radical,
as a self-righteous punk who slugged her when she wouldn’t commit to everything he told her to do.
No because it is so far left (except for Jack Tapper) that I haven’t watched it for decades
{quote}I don’t watch network or cable TV anymore.
I feel much better....So can you.
I use internet streaming only..(Netflix, hulu, etc..)
For news I use streaming radio where I can pick my sources.
No CNN....No Fox....No flaming alphabet BS...{/quote}
DITTO!
I miss the music of the 60’s and that’s about it.
I Don’t miss the tearful, sad faces of my fellow classmen as their brothers were killed in the war.
I don’t miss the broken young men who returned from ‘Nam, out of their minds. That was sad, and horrible with not a thing any of us could do to help them.
I do remember the socialist upstarts of the time, and am reminded daily that their utopia is our enslavement, because now they are our leaders :(
I watch HLN on those occasions that they show, “Forensic Files”.
Nope.
Knew better.
“The sickening Forest Gump film, another one of his “artistic efforts”, was an anti-Southern, anti-Christian, anti-military non-stop hatefest.”
I didn’t get that vibe from FG. I respect your opinion, Friend but the scene where Lt Dan finally makes “peace with God” and showed the sunrise was excellent.
One of the many things in the film, at least to me, that seemed to be mocking Southerners is when Gump tells Jenny to go back to Green-bow AL-a-BAM-A as she boards the bus with the leftwing hippie, a William Ayers type. I try not to be easily offended but I thought that was a cartoonish representation of the people in the South. I walked out, actually got my money back at the ticket window and have never seen a milliseconds of the rest of Gump.
Due to that reaction on my part, maybe I missed a critical turning point that could have redeemed it. That's possible, because in spite of the hateful Tom Hanks, it does have Patriot Gary Sinese in a key role.
College text books continue the lies, too. I think we need to defend our vets and let everyone know about the ROE. Post wherever the show is mentioned. Google search, log in, post.
The TV show “Mad Men” does a pretty good job with the 1960s.
That was proposed by the Marine Corps in 65, I believe."
That was proposed by all of us snuffies back then but I don't think the upper leadership ever really got behind that plan. While it would have certainly caused the NVA to head for home as rapidly as possible, we also faced really lousy interior trafficability in North Vietnam - since like in the South, there was really only one north-south road near the coast and tall mountains and triple-canopy jungle not far inland. We also faced the near-certainty of Chinese intervention like we did in Korea a little earlier. The only pluses to the plan were that the South would have had a bit of a break while all the action went north and of course, everything in the North was enemy, so we could shoot a bit more enthusiastically.
I was a Marine back then and fought in Vietnam from early '66 to mid-'67. I went over with the enthusiastic support of the American public and came back to the Leftist-led hatred of us and our war. I am proud of us. always will be but I will never look at the American public the same way again.
But the Sixties left us with what we have now in government: Radical Leftists. There are no more Democrats like Zell Miller or Scoop Jackson (though Scoop Jackson showed his true colors during the Annie Lee Moss fiasco, in the same way Truman showed his true colors when it became apparent there was indeed a communist infestation in the US government...)
...”But there is not one single Democratic politician in this country that I feel has the best interests of the United States at heart, as I did feel with some Democrats in years gone by.
Now, they are all rubber-stamp stooges, as far as I am concerned, aiding and abetting the destruction of this country. Not a single honorable one amongst them.”...
I imagine you would be surprised at how many people agree with you. Your Dad and his military cohorts were REAL men. What we have in authority over us today are “metro” men who wouldn’t walk across the street to protect their very own family. They are narcissists for the most part and some of them probably never stopped using drugs. Many, if they even have families, are working on the second or third one. They do not have any vision of the future beyond their own lifetimes and they do not care about that. They want to amass fortunes to escape this nation when they finally destroy it. I sincerely hope there is no place for them to go. My opinion.
LBJ would never have agreed to invade North Vietnam.
Take time to read Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes 1963 1964, and Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson’s Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965. These are annotated transcripts of LBJ’s secret recordings from his first two years in office.
LBJ never had the stomach to do what was needed to win. He wanted to do just enough to make the other side quit. That waffling trickled down through the command structure and was fatal.
You can detect that attitude when you read what he said at the time.
Music is powerful for the young, for sure, but it was the drugs which really ruined the nation. Drugs do two things..They embolden the user through the loss of inhibition. That causes him/her to do things they would never do otherwise. This is a result of the drug effect on the frontal lobes of the brain which houses judgment. If you turn millions of people like that loose on your society, they will wreak havoc and that is what we had and what we have in America today, in spades. Drug use and addiction is the elephant in the room and people do not consider the damage it does because so many are users themselves and do not want it discussed. Look at the support now for legalization of marijuana? If you can't control it, legalize it. Political correctness is the other driving issue. Social pressures are the unwritten laws which govern civilized society and give power to majority opinion. There is no fraud because people can say how they feel about right and wrong. Political correctness forces a false morality on a society which cannot last because it is totally unnatural. It is soft tyranny and is very destructive on all the functions of society. At this point, with open borders, I think the American haters may have won..Their secret weapon..A state run media just like them, the usurpers of freedom.
...”Anything about the Weather Underground blowing things up?”...
Probably not. They are too busy teaching in our top colleges and universities to be investigated or interviewed, except on that single hated network, FOXNEWS, by Meghan Kelly. Anyone who doesn’t know, by now, that the “kool” people are those who hate and want to kill Americans, has not been paying attention. Looks like it is slow death our leaders have chosen for us in lieu of the 1960s style of explosions, etc., such as the dilution of our power by the takeover of our nation from the outside due to the removal of our Southern Border, without the usual processes of assimilation we have known since our founding. It is grotesque that they are using innocent children to do their dirty work. Children, you know, are made to be aborted, unless they can be used to destroy your nation. Why would a government bring children into our nation which we cannot take care of at the same time they are giving money to the people who refused to take care of them in their own countries? It is the dirtiest of businesses, folks. Pray for strength every day to face what is ahead and help the innocent whenever you can knowing that judgment will come eventually for the evil men and women who are promoting the suffering as they grasp for fleeting power.
Your comments read like my life story...LOL. My dad was also military and until he retired, we always lived on base. I was in California in the late sixties - about 90 miles from San Francisco so believe me I had my gut full of hippies by the time we left for Turkey. I lost two friends in Nam (also AF brats) so I really, really hated hippies and the so-called peace movement. I remember crying when Goldwater lost. And my best memory on returning to the states was the time we came home from England on the SS United States and going up on the deck at 0400 and seeing the Statue of Liberty. Most beautiful sight this little 12 year old ever saw!
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