[conservative cat]

Since I was born in the 70’s, I didn’t quite know all about Vietnam (other than taught by lib teachers). My dad served two tours, and somehow McNamara came up in conversation one day. I quickly found out how passionate my normally calm father got about HIM!

[Kansas58]

I was in Marine Boot Camp in 1977.
Ya, I know, but I joined to show a cousin that I was proud of his service, in Vietnam, as well as to see if I could cut it.
Even though Drill Instructors are supposed to avoid politics, the name McNamara came up, and I swear I thought Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sargent Ward would explode, his face got so red and he was so angry.
“Body Count” was a McNamara idea.
It was stupid, of course. Yes, people have to die, in any war, but you WIN wars by taking GROUND, and by making it impossible for your enemy to fight back.
Getting into a population war, with Asian countries, was a very stupid idea.

So much for the Ivy League brains who think they are so damn smart!

[Jackson57]

I doubt that you’d find a single VN vet that has anything but disdain for McNamara. And you’re right, liberals have rewritten history about that war. John Kerry even referred to it as “Mr. Nixon’s war”, when it was completely Kennedy and Johnson.

[Luke21]

He was not much of a human being. My late father, also a vet hated his and Lyndon Johnson’s guts equally.