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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Good advice, but we're talking about something that happened more than 40 years ago.
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Oh, I know. I was just thinking out loud.
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
No, we didn't start the war between the Viet Minh and the so-called Republic of Vietnam. We did, however, side with "our" bloody dictator against "their" bloody dictator for the sole reason that "their" guy was a Godless Communist, and 58,000 of our boys died in what was essentially a civil war. The cause was wrong, our involvement was wrong, and as I've said before we should never have been there in the first place. Our government lied to us and sent us there for reasons most of us still don't understand, and I'm guessing they didn't either.
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I don't really know that much about the politics of the Vietnam war. But I do know that as well as the deaths of 58,000 A,ericans, 500 Australians died, and 3,129 were wounded or fell ill, and all we got was a new emblem for the RAAF. So it's clear to me that the war was just a huge waste of lives.
By the way, and sorry if I'm getting this wrong, Steve, but didn't you mention something once about being in the Navy in the Vietnam War?