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Originally posted by 39mto39g Computer problems or not, I never asked anyone to belive anything I ever said, I took more time for you and explained exactly what happened on the calling in of the B-52s, I hardly ever explain myself to anyone and you can belive it or not.
Im gona go have a beer.
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Ron, you are taking me all wrong here, you are one of the few people whose stories I believ almost verbatim. I think you are one of the most honest people here--you write exactly what you feel with no iota of political correctness--and you write your feelings down exactly as they are. Thank you!!! I say this sincerely!!!Please only keep writing your honesty in the future
The reason is is that you prove so well what I guess I finally have to shed my denial about
: We really did hate the vietnamese as a people and we carried on our war against them unmercifully (is despise or Think they suck easier to say? go ahead) We blew the living crap out of them whenever we felt liike it and we felt like it a lot. I wanted to deny this for decades--against the evidence of all my experience but the truth keeps slamming me in the face--its not just you at all Ron, I am amazed at how many line up to say it: We thought the Vietnamese sucked, at least the ones on our side. It defeats the whole purpose of the war from our side--why should we fight for their freedom when we didn't give a sht about them? Wasn't that REALLY the thought on the l6ne??SOnsabitches, they didn't draft their 19year olds and we did!!
We did despise them-- There it is, no doubt about it, repeated over and over and its only my denial that denies it, the part that still wants to see myself as the good guy.
I think its no stretch of the imagination at all to think that someone who thought the Vietnamese sucked would wreak all the damage he could on them, its only a matter of connecting the dots. I have no doubt of this, I saw this and participated in it fully so I am absolutely not blaming you for this at all--as a matter of fact you only hold ideas I held myself for a long long time. You are only being honest about the feelings that I'd bet the farm almost EVERY ONE of us Americans had the same feelings--and acted on them.
This was the "corporate culture" that we were all part of. We were so superior to the Vietnamese. We had the better way. They were chickenshit. We couldn't trust a one of them.
And most of all: We respected the other side more than we respected our allies. In 35 years of listening to Vietnam Vets that is the most common saying I have heard. And do you think the Vietnamese didn't know all about it?
Think about our rumors--kids with grenades and baby-with explosives flinging grandma's--you think people who believe this stuff are going to be good to these people?
But if you really thought so, wasn't the right thing to do to tell the government about it? I thought so then and still do