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What are your thoughts on the Vietnam war?
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:30 am
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:30 am
Been watching Vietnam in HD on netflix... And I'm still wondering if we had a good reason to be in this war.
Do you think it helped slow/control the spread of communism?
Do you think it was a complete waste of American lives?
Do you think there was some financial reason behind the war for the US?
Do you think the media hindered the US from having success in the war?
Do you think the war made any difference at all in the world we live in today?
Do you think it helped slow/control the spread of communism?
Do you think it was a complete waste of American lives?
Do you think there was some financial reason behind the war for the US?
Do you think the media hindered the US from having success in the war?
Do you think the war made any difference at all in the world we live in today?
This post was edited on 8/10/15 at 12:40 am
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Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:31 am to NATidefan
Still in Saigon
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:34 am to NATidefan
I think a bunch of innocent young men got drafted and died for no reason. frick all those people that spit on them when they returned home also. Signed son of Vietnam vet
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:38 am to NATidefan
Was a stupid pointless retarded war
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:41 am to NATidefan
The US couldn't achieve victory because they did not understand their enemy.
The US was fighting a war to contain communism. The North Vietnamese were fighting a war of independence to expel the colonial devils and would fight til the death to be victorious. They fought France for years and once France left the US moved in and it made no difference to them even though the US was there for different reasons.
The US was fighting a war to contain communism. The North Vietnamese were fighting a war of independence to expel the colonial devils and would fight til the death to be victorious. They fought France for years and once France left the US moved in and it made no difference to them even though the US was there for different reasons.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:45 am to The Boat
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The US was fighting a war to contain communism.
Do you think that the US had any success at all in that area? Technically we lost the war, but do you think it helped prevent the spread of communism at all?
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:45 am to The Boat
Once again the US sticking their nose in someone's business where it didn't belong. Boy we seem to be real good at it even now. 
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:45 am to NATidefan
Without the Vietnam war would we have Forrest Gump??
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:47 am to cheesesteak501
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Without the Vietnam war would we have Forrest Gump??
Off course, but no bubba/gump restaurants.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:48 am to NATidefan
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Off course, but no bubba/gump restaurants
Or ping pong champion.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:49 am to FLBooGoTigs1
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Once again the US sticking their nose in someone's business where it didn't belong. Boy we seem to be real good at it even now.
This used to be my thought, but today sometimes I wonder if we choose to play in away games so we don't have to play home games.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:49 am to cheesesteak501
Just minus a dead Bubba gump, a handicapped lt. Dan, a Gump ping pong legend, a metal of honor recipient. Well I guess and 50 % of the movie plot 
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:51 am to FLBooGoTigs1
Remember a girl in my 3rd grade class being pulled to learn her brother had been killed. Remember my Uncle leaving for the National Guard.
No reason for the US to be in the war, it caused more damage to national morale than anything else the past century.
No reason for the US to be in the war, it caused more damage to national morale than anything else the past century.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:51 am to cheesesteak501
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Or ping pong champion.
lieutenant dan would still have legs... but I bet he wouldn't have married that asian chick.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:51 am to NATidefan
Vietnam was important to the US because they felt if Vietnam fell it would set off a domino effect and the rest of southeast Asia would turn communist. Personally I think the US shouldn't have cared as much about what happened in Asia on the other side of the world and worried more about the Americas and western Europe. It would have saved a lot of lives and the American image was tarnished badly after Vietnam.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:55 am to RogerTheShrubber
My dad didn't talk much about his days in Vietnam but when I was leaving the military myself he did tell me about the shite hole they stayed in while in the jungles of Vietnam. Just seemed like a waste too me.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:56 am to NATidefan
The weed there was so much better than the crap people were smoking on the home front.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:58 am to NATidefan
We underestimated the enemy and overestimated the effectiveness of our air power. We were unprepared to fight in the jungle against an invisible enemy.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:59 am to FLBooGoTigs1
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My dad didn't talk much about his days in Vietnam but when I was leaving the military myself he did tell me about the shite hole they stayed in while in the jungles of Vietnam. Just seemed like a waste too me.
My dad was in Korea for two years. He came back, we spent two years in San Antonio and he was about to go to Vietnam. He exited the service after 10 years and didn't have to go.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 1:01 am to The Boat
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Vietnam was important to the US because they felt if Vietnam fell it would set off a domino effect and the rest of southeast Asia would turn communist. Personally I think the US shouldn't have cared as much about what happened in Asia on the other side of the world and worried more about the Americas and western Europe.
Believe me, I'm not trying to support the war or the motivations. Just trying to understand it.
A lot of people say we should focus on issues at home.. but that's like only focusing on issues inside your house while your enemies occupy your neighborhood.
Sometimes I think as unpopular as wars like vietnam, iraq, and afghanistan are... they are needed if we want to maintain our way of life... whether that is fair to the citizens of those countries or not.
This post was edited on 8/10/15 at 1:02 am
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