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Re: I have a question for djohn...
By: sstonetx
Jul 20, 2012 - 04:54 pm
djohn78 writes:
sstonetx writes:
I enjoy hearing your experiences. I remember in the Viet Nam war, I lived in Alameda, California where a lot of the officers lived who were in the service. Some lived in our apartment complex. My husband had gotten off the Kitty Hawk and we had a lot of guys who were on various ships living around us, as well. They used to tell us what you did, that if they had been able to conduct the war like it was supposed to be done, the war could have been over 6 years before. This was in the late late 60's.



Yes, I watched it in horror every night. In the beginning the guys had rubber bullets and were told they couldn't shoot unless someone shot at them, first. I used to cry over the photos in the paper of the beautiful young men who were losing their lives for what I thought was a senseless war. I felt the same way about going into Iraq. I hated that so many guys didn't come home and so many are wounded. You guys went where you were told to go. You didn't have the choice, but, I wish you had not been put into that position. It sucked!

That was the begining of politically correct warfare. Obviously it wasn't under the microscope as much as war is today, but it was the first war fought in the livingrooms of Americans.





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Re: I have a question for djohn...
By: djohn78
Jul 20, 2012 - 01:49 pm
sstonetx writes:
I enjoy hearing your experiences. I remember in the Viet Nam war, I lived in Alameda, California where a lot of the officers lived who were in the service. Some lived in our apartment complex. My husband had gotten off the Kitty Hawk and we had a lot of guys who were on various ships living around us, as well. They used to tell us what you did, that if they had been able to conduct the war like it was supposed to be done, the war could have been over 6 years before. This was in the late late 60's.



That was the begining of politically correct warfare. Obviously it wasn't under the microscope as much as war is today, but it was the first war fought in the livingrooms of Americans.



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Re: I have a question for djohn...
By: cabeuser
Jul 20, 2012 - 11:52 am
Thank you, John!


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Re: I have a question for djohn...
By: sstonetx
Jul 20, 2012 - 09:35 am
I enjoy hearing your experiences. I remember in the Viet Nam war, I lived in Alameda, California where a lot of the officers lived who were in the service. Some lived in our apartment complex. My husband had gotten off the Kitty Hawk and we had a lot of guys who were on various ships living around us, as well. They used to tell us what you did, that if they had been able to conduct the war like it was supposed to be done, the war could have been over 6 years before. This was in the late late 60's.


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Re: I have a question for djohn...
By: djohn78
Jul 19, 2012 - 02:45 pm
Thanks guys!


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