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Originally Posted by Stealhead
I know Vietnam vets that see the war many different ways some see the entire thing as having been a mistake others feel like the leadership got it wrong others feel that the protesters made us loose.
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I'm one of the ones who feels that we should never have been there at all. We went in to prop up the losing side of a general election, and supported a dictator simply because he was our dictator and not a Godless Communist. When he tried to go his own way we helped a newer dictator assassinate the first one. It was a mess from the beginning and we didn't learn the lesson from the French experience a decade earlier, and we didn't learn the lesson we handed to the British back in 1812.
On the other hand I used to have a friend who was a combat infantryman in Vietnam, and very nearly killed there, who insisted that we should have won and shown them all what for. We used to have some great discussions.
Another friend's dad was a highly decorated WW2 and Korean vet who had been an 'advisor' in Vietnam in 1960. My friend said he would take his pistol and shoot off his son's big toe before he'd let his son go there.
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Originally Posted by Hottentot
I think the composers of
got it about right.
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WOW! I remember that song! My best friend at the time's dad had that album. I'd forgotten all about it. A little research showed me an entertaining side-fact: The author of that song and the others on the record was also the man who wrote the score for
Mary Poppins! Thanks, Mister H!
On the other hand we had our own 'anti' song, and it became a classic.