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We were kids. We were soldiers. I remember when I ETS'd back to the states. Everything around me looked completely different. Seemed like no one gave a damn about Viet Nam and they hated those who fought there..no big deal, I hated them, as well.
I knew I had to get rid of the 11B MOS so I re-upped, went to University and became an MP which quickly turned into CID. Hell, I saw some terrible, terrible things at different Posts from Fort Hood to Fort Knox and everything in between - terrible things.
War is a nightmare fought by young men that should be home watching submarine races at the lake with little Blonde Debbie. But, Life doesn't work that way. Our elected "leaders" don't go to war. they send us to fight in their steads - just as the early English King's did. All the way back to the beginning of time.
So, before you little snowflakes cast dispersions on those who do a job that you are scared shitless to do - keep your god damned mouths shut, you worthless assholes. Just remember when you look in the mirror - that person that looks back at you is a coward.
So you still don't get it, and I have to explain it to you.
Ho Chi Minh had beat the French, who treated the Vietnamese like dirt.
So Ho Chi Minh was their hero.
He was going to be elected leader of the whole country in the 1955 elections.
But the US did not want that, so backed Diem in pulling a military coup against Bao Dai in 1955.
That was a tragic mistake that could never work.
So then the US had to back a continual series of military coups a series of dictators we supported, Diem, Thieu, Huong, Mihn, and Ky.
It was a totally disaster.
No one in Vietnam supported anyone the US was forcing on them.
They all wanted Ho Chi Minh.
It had nothing to do with cowardice.
I was not just teargassed protesting the illegal war, but getting arrested, beaten, bones broken, etc.
And the problem is not limited to just Vietnam.
Those who have the money and are willing to pay people also control the police here in the US.
And they don't want free and fair elections, newspapers, or anything else.
And they hire people to make sure no one really understands what is going on or that this is really a dictatorship.
If it were not, then we would not be imprisoning so many people in the War on Drugs, lying about WMD in Iraq, passing illegal 3 strikes laws, etc.
So if you really want to server this country, you will stop serving those who just pay you to cause harm, and realize the real enemy is those who have subverted the democratic republic and have take away all our freedoms.