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Posted By y_soitenly 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & EntertainmentThis is footage of the vietnam war that I spliced together and added a song to for my American History class. The song is Clubbed to Death by Rob Dougan, and...
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Endoscopy5 months, 2 weeks ago
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a sick telling of Viet Nam with the atomic bomb added. Where is the other part of the story where the Viet Cong committed very nasty depredations on the people of South Viet Nam? Where is the stories of villages wiped out by them? Where is the story of the last helicopter out of Viet Nam? Where is the story of the millions killed and hundreds of thousands put in concentration camps. Why? Because Kennedy and others successfully fought the bill to provide South Viet Nam the promised means to carry on the war.
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These things are what the liberals always want to look the other way instead of facing.-
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fiftynine5 months, 2 weeks ago
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You are a dumb ****z endo...Talk about facing...I faced it ,the reality,Cowboy Grandpa faced it in reality....Many of us so called liberals faced the reality of that war and the current war....Dumb fugs like you ask where was this,where was that....Let me ask you this..Where was bushboy? Where was cheney?Where was rove? Where was wolfowitz? Where was limpballs and coulter and beck and hannity and the rest of the right wing warmongers ? And endo where was you?
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Myself and many of my brothers were doing what our country,what our politicians asked us to do.We wnet to war,we followed orders,and 58,000 + paid the ultimate price.We then came home to a country that did not appreciate the sacrifices made...many like you still don't ...and for forty friggin yuears have had to listen to the cowards question our service and our patriotism.
I often wonder why we have put up with this kind of treatment...The only answer that i can come up with is , a soldier serves all in our country even those that don't deserve it. -
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cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Endo:
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Were you there ???
Did you see the sh*t that went down ???
Did your as* pucker up when the shi* hit the fan in the bush.
Did you pull your buddies down to keep them from being hit ???
Did you ever have "charlie" shooting the shi* out of ya, while you were calling for reinforcements and be told there were none available at the time. To hold your ground.
Did you ever get rained on for what seemed like forever ???
Ever pull leeches off yourself after a stream or river crossing.
Ever go to sleep at night with the stench of death all around ya ???
Ever see the dead swollen and split open with maggots crawlin' everywhere ???
Or a corpse with it's head split open and the brain coming out ???
How about dead children, splayed out in the dust soaked in blood ??
Parents and children wailing over the deaths of their loved ones ???
I have and more. I still see them sometimes in my nightmares !!!
Would you like to tell me how bad we were over there ???
Or would you just like to admit you are a sad little puppet of the neocon party. Whose foolishness continues to lose them more support every day.
You call yourself a patriot. Haaaah !!!!!!!
You are a patriot of the neocon party is all you are.
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y_soitenly5 months, 2 weeks ago
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I'll never forget the time when I heard on the evening news that Pres. LBJ (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to escalate the war in Vietnam. "We gotta turn up the music." The very next day, the photo on the front page of the Chicago Daily News newspaper showed a close up shot of a B-52 dropping hundreds of bombs over an area in Vietnam. This was the first time I heard of the term, "carpet bombing" which you can see in this video footage at 2:50 and 3:13.
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CRYMTYPHON5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Christ .
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That was powerful, y_soitenly,
and moving; but I do not thank you for it.
Bombs, bombs, and bombs.
Young people holding guns and old people holding bleeding
children, rows of houses in quiet fields disappearing in
flashes of yellow and red; and here come the bombs again.
Somber beautiful music; no screams.
A day of rememberence is eight-tenths fraud;
if we really remembered we would fall to the ground shrieking in horror and sorrow.
Perhaps that is as it should be; maybe two-tenths truth is as much reality as we can hope to face at a time.
Bombs, bombs, bombs.
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y_soitenly5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Back in '92, I was working with this young Asian dude that told me a story...
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One day he was riding the subway train on his way to work. An older man sat down across the aisle from him and kept on giving him dirty looks. So the Asian dude got up and moved to another car on the train. The older man followed him there.
He still gave him dirty looks, but said nothing. The Asian dude gets worried because he never saw this man before and was angry that this man kept following him around on that train. So, a few stops later, the older man gets up, see's an open seat next to the Asian and sits down, next to him. The Asian gets bold and tells the man, "Hey mister! why you keep staring at me?" "Why you keep following me?" "I don't know you... I never seen you before... Leave me alone... I don't want no trouble or I will call the train conductor on you!" The older man tells him to Shut The F-o-c-k Up! The older man then tells him this... "Ya know, I went to Vietnam and fought there. I did 3 tours there and in Nam, I killed hundreds of you, Gooks! Y'all look the same... I can smell a Gook rat from a mile away! I lost a lot of my friends over there. You are young, but your still an F'-ing Gook. I can kill you real easy, right now; I got this big bag of EARS that I brought home, as a souvenir. I used to make necklaces from them. I want to give one to you."
"Will you accept it from me?" No? Then from this day on, "Always look over your shoulder m-f'er... because I'll be watching you!" "Payback is a bitch, ain't it?!" Then the man got off the train at the next stop and the Asian never saw him again. This is when we found out that the Asian dude was from Vietnam!-
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fiftynine5 months, 2 weeks ago
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I knew of ear collectors.I know vets now that still hate vietnamese. I didn't and i don't.
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Like i said before..it took me some time not to hate those on the otherside that were doing what they had to do to survive..just as we were.
I hold no grudges now against any vietnamese person...Those familys suffered just as greatly as any American family did..I realized that sometime later,i wish i could have gotten over my hate sooner.
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cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago
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y_soitenly:
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At 1:40 into the video, I stopped it and froze. Memories came flooding back of a time of pain and fear. The soldier laying there with his left arm bloodied and wounded, could have been me. It wasn't me, but my left arm was hit and I saw the blood and the pain, and shock in the young mans face.
Any who think war is a glory for those who are in them don't know squat about 'em.
What was hard was going back out knowing you've already been tagged once, you don't feel so invincible and know it could be you who dies next.
I give thanks to the doc's, the dust off pilots, the nurses and doctors who saved many of our lives, also to our buddies who stood their ground so we had a chance to be evac'ed.
That is something the Endo's would never understand. My buddies saved my as* by standing their ground and not letting us get over run !!!!
As far as ear collectors, yeah, that happened. But ya have to understand we were in a war of hellish porportions. Some took the ears as trophies of kills, others as a proof of kills.
I would not be surprised to find out that something of that nature is happening still.
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y_soitenly5 months, 2 weeks ago
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The first real casualty of war is innocence.
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The first real movie about the war in Vietnam is "PLATOON"
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