I was in Korea 1965-66-67. I know the Army used chems, it would stick to your throat for days. I now suffer from these chems but can't prove it.
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these paragraphs deserve a thread of their own:
You live in a country of great ease, opportunity, and comfort. Put aside the strident political fervor and whirlwind of self-serving proclamations of those desperately grasping at power for just a moment. You create the nature of life and quantity of joy around you by both action and inaction. You can choose to ignore the past. You do so at the risk of squandering our greatness as a nation on your apathetic disinterest. Regardless of its origin, please lay down your own personal socio-political agenda long enough to consider that it could all vanish in the flash of an instant.
In order to fully comprehend where you are in the world, you must first grasp how you got here. Whether you regard yourself as impotent in its path or so sophisticated that you are above it all, you cannot deny that you are the product of our collective history. Some pretend they can abandon that simple truth. They declare themselves “citizens of the world”, seeking to erase any debt to their forebears. Others cloak themselves in academia and politics in an attempt to impose the illusion that all this magically sprang from their blind existence. It’s as if hundreds of years of enterprise and millions of lives were expended to lull them into utter ignorance. This is nothing new. Early on, John Quincy Adams stated, “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our beliefs, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of reality and evidence.”
Most would agree that what historians call the Cold War began with the partitioning of Germany at the end of WWII, ending with the destruction of the Berlin Wall during the Reagan Administration. Neither is true. The desire to either dominate or eliminate the human race arose long before. The tools necessary for what is called “mutually assured destruction” were indeed created and held in astonishing quantities during that time. However, you’ve been taught that this was largely theoretical, suited only for militaristic saber rattling and geopolitical brinkmanship. The illusion exists that the era of detante, perestroika, and arms reduction treaties made the world safe. You’re led to believe that there were little to no casualties caused nor lives extinguished by the Cold War. These are very deadly lies.
The danger that stems from this deception is the foolhardy belief that the Cold War ended in a static truce. Nothing could be farther from the truth. We now face a new enemy that has armed itself with the materials and technology produced by the former combatants. Their hidden strength lies in the knowledge that generations here and abroad have been trained to value the cozy complacency that materialism provides over the dreary process and immense sacrifices which created it. It’s much too convenient to simply deny both the existence of our dedicated, vicious enemies and the insidious dooms-day weapons they possess.
Since you are likely consequently fully embedded in the pursuit of this façade which produces merely a temporary illusion of satisfaction as long as the list of your trendy possessions is expanding, it’s necessary to falsely assure yourself that someone of greater substance will sustain your level of opportunity. They always have. You are privileged and you deserve it. It’s History. Too bad you haven’t read all the chapters.