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Old 01-22-15, 05:13 PM   #61
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Please, save the visits to enemy countries for when the war is over and we aren't enemies any more.

That's just common sense.
Good advice, but we're talking about something that happened more than 40 years ago.
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Old 01-22-15, 05:41 PM   #62
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We started the Mexican American war and we ended up getting stuck with Texas!
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Old 01-22-15, 05:48 PM   #63
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We started the Mexican American war and we ended up getting stuck with Texas!
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Old 01-22-15, 06:37 PM   #64
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We didn't start it.

We didn't start the war in Vietnam either.
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Old 01-22-15, 07:08 PM   #65
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We didn't start the war in Vietnam either.
Now, Now! You and I both know that wasn't a war.
It was a Police Action.

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(it was criticized by the United Kingdom and Canada. Those Hosers!)
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Old 01-23-15, 02:24 AM   #66
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We didn't start the war in Vietnam either.
When the British and the Americans supported the French

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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Good advice, but we're talking about something that happened more than 40 years ago.
Oh, I know. I was just thinking out loud.




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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.
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?
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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?
Radio man, USS Brinkley Bass (DD-887)

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Fixed that for you.
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Oh, I know. I was just thinking out loud.
I tried that once. Got my face slapped.

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So it's clear to me that the war was just a huge waste of lives.
It's not that clear to me, but yeah, that's been my opinion for a very long time.

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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?
That's what the patch in my sig means.

It was for a very short time, a very long time ago. I still have this




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Fixed that for you.
Yep. That's what we called her.
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Hint, the first name is not Mary.
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