I'M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEBER VIET NAM

self ^ | April 18, 2021 | knarf

[knarf]

History MUST be taught in the public schools, or shut 'em down

[knarf]

I'm old enough to remember the Viet Nam era.

Somewhere in the early sixties, some college students and university professors got some air and ink about their reasoning to protest US involvement in Viet Nam.

The event(s) were rapidly picked up by every "news" and entertainment outlet (look familiar ?) and broadcast to the planet that a bunch of long haired men, all wearing denim and beads flashing something called a "peace sign", with their long haired beautiful women in colorful array, supporting her man, had united around ONE THING ... US involvement in (and slowly becoming the) Viet Nam (War)

By 1967/8, LIFE magazine (and others) were informing us that there was a global movement.

It didn't matter which industrialized nation they cameo'd; the USA, Japan, Germany, Russia, India, England, etc., there were clashes with police, sit-ins, take-overs, rock concerts, and a ton of money being made off of the "counter culture", ALL because of a conflict that got blown out of proportion.

A whole lot of young men died, just in time for the establishment to keep the establishment

"They" took out the leaders, and maintained a modicum of control

. I see the same thing with the latest strain of flu ... COVID.

[PIF]

old enough to remember wwii

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Old enough to remember Buffalo Bob.

[C210N]

It's coming. Soon. And, just in a neck of time!

I.INTRODUCTIONIn the course of human events there have always been those who deny or reject human freedom, but Americans will never falter in defending the fundamental truths of human liberty proclaimed on July 4, 1776. We will—we must—always hold these truths.

The declared purpose of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission is to “enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union.” This requires a restoration of American education, which can only be grounded on a history of those principles that is “accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling.” And a rediscovery of our shared identity rooted in our founding principles is the path to a renewed American unity and a confident American future.

[DuncanWaring]

I’m old enough to remember when Kennedys killed their women one at a time!

[dfwgator]

“Is she right? ‘Cause I know that’s the *popular* version of what went on there.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq9mzhz9IQo

[knarf]

apples and oranges, and there's no proof about Marylin.

Ted was never a part of Camelot

[KrisKrinkle]

Wasn’t he the sidekick for Princess SummerFallWinterSpring?

[Mouton]

I’m old enough to remember Froggy the Gremlin.

[SaveFerris]

I like the way you think!

Gonna be watching you!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It’s Howdy Doody Time!

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=It%27s+Howdy+Doody+Time!&t=brave&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Da_rqN559vl8

[BipolarBob]

I’m old enough to remember telling Gen. Armstrong to leave the Sioux be and stay away from little Big Horn. I think. It might’ve been a dream. My memory ain’t so good. It’s like grandpa used to say “I can’t remember as good as I once did, but I can remember once as good as I ever did” or something to that effect. I never understood it but it sounded good.

[MurrietaMadman]

Who remembers Archie?

https://iowaculture.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/cold-war-vietnam/operational-priority

[dfwgator]

We need more Turgesons in our universities.

[dfwgator]

Ted was part of Came-a-lot.

[enumerated]

This “ Trump is the new JFK” meme is getting very tiresome.

The Kennedys and MLK were liberal Democrats seeking government solutions.

The Founders designed this Constitutional Republic to limit the power of government. True conservatives, like Presidents Reagan and Trump, sought to uphold that founding principle of limited government.

The Kennedys and MLK were never on board with that limited government idea and had they lived, they would have gone down the same road to Hell that Teddy Kennedy went down - socialism “for our own good”.

Tyranny of the majority is what all leftists resort to. Abusing the power of government to make people do things “for their own good”. The green new deal would have been right up JFK’s alley - and it’s silly to deny it.

I don’t know which of the many theories of why JFK was assassinated to believe - but I doubt it was because he tried to drain the swamp.

[dfwgator]

All this JFK conspiracy crap is meant to make people forget that it was a Commie that did it.

[mass55th]

"Old enough to remember Buffalo Bob."

Me too. Born in 1947. I was the baby of the family, and am the only one left. I'll be 74 in August. No one in my family lived to be 75. Glad I'm on the tail-end of my life.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

“Old enough to remember Buffalo Bob.” … and Chelsea.

[Jim Noble]

It’s Howdy Doody time
It isn’t worth a dime
So turn on channel 9
You can see Frankenstein-

Stewart Avenue Elementary School 1959