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Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:23 pm to upgrayedd
I don’t know if it’s generational or not but some might be.
Me and my dad have talked a bunch about his experiences in Nam and mine in this generation and there are a lot of the same attitudes after it smacks you in the face that you are in harms way and you do whatever the hell you have to do to make it home and protect your brothers fighting beside you.
:soberbushanswer:
Me and my dad have talked a bunch about his experiences in Nam and mine in this generation and there are a lot of the same attitudes after it smacks you in the face that you are in harms way and you do whatever the hell you have to do to make it home and protect your brothers fighting beside you.
:soberbushanswer:
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:24 pm to upgrayedd
Josh sounds like a psycho. He said he misses killing. Eh...
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:24 pm to dcrews
Ww2 vets seem proud as hell of what they did. Everything since is a mixed bag.
I’ve talked to some people who would go back and kill tomorrow if given the chance, and some that never really came back from it
I’ve talked to some people who would go back and kill tomorrow if given the chance, and some that never really came back from it
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:25 pm to Jim Rockford
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I used to work with a Korea vet who opened up and told me some stuff he said he had never told anyone else. I dont know why he picked me. I didnt even know him that well.
Worked with a guy that did a couple tours in Vietnam. We got snowed out for work one day so a group of us went to the bar. Dude got drunk and was telling us how he smashed some VC's windpipe in with the butt of his rifle. His nephew also worked with us and said he'd never heard him tell a story like that before. I guess when people get older, they feel a little more able to tell their stories.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:26 pm to upgrayedd
This reminds me of a sniper documentary I watched. An old man from Vietnam was on there and they asked him something to the effect of, "that's another human on the other side of those cross hairs what do you feel after you pull the trigger?" To which he respinfs, "Recoil."
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:29 pm to upgrayedd
Qassim was a very interesting one too..
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:31 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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This reminds me of a sniper documentary I watched. An old man from Vietnam was on there and they asked him something to the effect of, "that's another human on the other side of those cross hairs what do you feel after you pull the trigger?" To which he respinfs, "Recoil."
Carlos (Danger) Hathcock
I don’t know if that’s true or not, but seems like something he would have said
This post was edited on 11/27/17 at 9:34 pm
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:32 pm to Salt Lick
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every veteran ive talked to would never do this.
Yep
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:35 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
My paternal grandfather was a ww2 vet and his dad was in ww1. I always did wonder about their time in service
For whatever reason they never told my dad any stories otherwise I'm certain my dad would have told me and my cousin.
For whatever reason they never told my dad any stories otherwise I'm certain my dad would have told me and my cousin.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:35 pm to upgrayedd
Josh seems like the kinda guy who you meet and at first think he is pretty damn cool. Then after a while you figure out he is just really good at bullshitting.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:36 pm to JetsetNuggs
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Josh’s take is fricking hilarious
The drink a fake beer and jerk off angle was unexpected
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:37 pm to lsucoonass
I have/had a couple clients that were ww2 vets. Never got that any of them had an ounce of regret for killing. I could be wrong, but it was also a different time
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:47 pm to upgrayedd
i had a feeling he was going to say something to that extent
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:55 pm to upgrayedd
I don't think it would bother me at all.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 9:59 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Is that the official millennial answer?
Posted on 11/27/17 at 10:02 pm to upgrayedd
i doubt it
Posted on 11/27/17 at 10:27 pm to Bushmaster
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I don’t know if it’s generational or not but some might be.
Me and my dad have talked a bunch about his experiences in Nam and mine in this generation and there are a lot of the same attitudes after it smacks you in the face that you are in harms way and you do whatever the hell you have to do to make it home and protect your brothers fighting beside you.
:soberbushanswer:
My theory is that there is some difference in purpose as well, and that will almost certainly affect the person's viewpoint.
We had a very good reason to be in Afghanistan, even if that turned into a quagmire. Iraq was a mightily stupid idea, but the people we were fighting were some fricked up evil people, at least where I was. It's pretty easy to swallow killing a group of men that cut off the head of a fourteen year old girl just because she was wearing blue jeans.
Vietnam had more than its fair share of atrocities, but it was ultimately a patriotic war for the VC and NVA. They've been fighting foreign invaders for more than a thousand years as a people. I think it could be hard to swallow killing someone in that scenario.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 10:34 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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Josh sounds like a psycho. He said he misses killing.
What’s wrong with this? We’re made to kill. To be warriors.
Warriors made this world. They spread their seeds. They raped and murdered their way across the globe and we have them to thank for the present day.
And one day, they’ll be a lot more killing that needs to happen. So you’d better prepare to either be the predator or be the prey.
Posted on 11/27/17 at 10:35 pm to upgrayedd
My dad always said he had no idea how many VC he killed, but the one he strangled in hand to hand was enough that he never wanted me or any of my siblings to ever experience having to kill another person.
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