It's stunning how many people seem to forget that there are other countries on the planet that use dollars and weren't involved in Vietnam.
They left out the part about getting drafted and sent to Vietnam with that 3rd grade education and risk dying for people that didn't care about you and other that hated you. Then coming home and getting spit on, literally spit on, by the people around you. And no one caring about the damage war caused you.
Never heard an old black man say "I wish things were like they were back in the 50s."
Nope nor a dirt poor white person either. Never forget, it's all about the money and far less than the color of your skin.
There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters during the late 1960s and early 1970s. These stories, which overwhelmingly surfaced many years after the war, usually involve an antiwar female spitting on a veteran, often yelling "baby killer". Most occur in U.S. civilian airports, usually San Francisco International, as GIs returned from the war zone in their uniforms.
No unambiguous documented incident of this behavior has ever surfaced, despite repeated and concerted efforts to uncover them.
I don't think he was talking about the protestors....
Because, of course, everyone on the planet is either American or Vietnamese.
The ideal life is to be born a multi-millionaire, then earn billions by exploiting workers
could you live with yourself though?
If I was born rich, I'd probably have no empathy either.
How are you supposed to develop it?
NOT philosophy, that's for sure.
I am so tired of people presuming that US's economic history is somehow universal.
The ideal life is dying when you're only 54? That's pretty bleak!
All the coke and alcohol catches up.
Fuck I hope not. I’m 54 now.
June 19th 2026. I'll see you soon.
If you were a vet and saw combat in Vietnam, that was the cancer you got from all the Agent Orange they sprayed on you that killed you......
Longer than I expect to live
But probably true!
being prime military age for the vietnam war? no, please got no
Also literally any day could be the one the Bomb dropped. It's easy to forget how close we came, or how fucking terrifying it was that you had no way of knowing.
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with being born after the draft became less used and I'm now old enough to not qualify for the draft anymore. Life is pretty good.
As long as you're white
And a man.
And lived in US
And cishet
And able bodied
And secretly homosexual
And resemble a wasp
Didn't work for me... in my 1972 bank job interview I was told, "I'd hire you if you were a man, but you're not. If I hired you, you'd just get pregnant and leave." It wasn't against the law for him to say all that.
And for what it's worth I didn't buy a home - a small one-bed flat - until I was in my 40s. Cost me so much I couldn't afford proper furniture. Yes, my current house is worth a lot more than what I paid for it (mainly because I bought a wreck), but so is any other house I could afford if I sold it.
For some my uncle and my dad did these things but also died prematurely from health complications related to Vietnam
Deserved it
Oh look, it's a tankie fuckwit! How does it feel to be a scurge on society, your family, and to have dropped out of primary school?
It feels great, thanks for asking! I love holding viewpoints that are "dangerous" but liberals agree with 4 years later (and pretend they held all along)
My dad bought about a third of an acre of waterfront property in the 80s with a small cottage on it that we added to. He paid something like $50,000. Guess what a small waterfront property is worth now?
No one gonna bite? Ok, I'll go first... One million dollars!
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