Re: War Hero
edlorah
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The 'attention' you describe lead to the deaths of 50,000 US troops and three million Vietnamese men,
women, and children Ross- many of them civilians. The US intervened in a civil war. Ho Chi Minh was a
communist, sure, but he was first and foremost a nationalist trying to free his country from colonial
forces: French, Japanese, and American. Vietnam is today nominally a 'communist' country, but if you want to know who really won the war, go
to the brightly-lit Department store near the old Hanoi Hilton and buy yourself some Samsonite
luggage and a pair of Calvin Klein jeans...The Vietnamese have moved on by the way... it' sonly us who are still fighting that war.
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"It was done only for political reasons only anyway. "
"It was done only for political reasons only anyway. "
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The 'attention' you describe lead to the deaths of 50,000 US troops and three million Vietnamese men,
women, and children Ross- many of them civilians. The US intervened in a civil war. Ho Chi Minh was a
communist, sure, but he was first and foremost a nationalist trying to free his country from colonial
forces: French, Japanese, and American. Vietnam is today nominally a 'communist' country, but if you want to know who really won the war, go
to the brightly-lit Department store near the old Hanoi Hilton and buy yourself some Samsonite
luggage and a pair of Calvin Klein jeans...The Vietnamese have moved on by the way... it' sonly us who are still fighting that war.
–--
"It was done only for political reasons only anyway. "
"It was done only for political reasons only anyway. "
