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panader0

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30. In '65 I was on a vacation to Bangkok with my folks.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Sat Nov 17, 2018, 04:02 PM

Nov 2018

My dad was stationed at Hickam AFB on Oahu.
We landed in Saigon, to refuel I guess--(I was 15).
The pilot said upon landing--"Look out the right side window and you can
see the remains of a plane blown up last week by the Viet Cong."
There it was--and I was never the same.
The war was the main issue for young folks then.
War continues today, but young folks are not as involved anymore.

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MSNBC Sunday Night, definitive proof Nixon treason, extended war for 4 years on purpose [View all] Eliot Rosewater Nov 2018 OP

I'll be watching malaise Nov 2018 #1

The GOP is an ugly death cult! edited ... RKP5637 Nov 2018 #2

You do realize it was LBJ that got us into Viet Nam based on a lie? still_one Nov 2018 #6

Yes, I lived through that one. Horrible and stupid!!! n/t RKP5637 Nov 2018 #19

same here still_one Nov 2018 #21

Johnson said to Erik Derkson "This is treason" to which he replied, "I know". Thousands more are kil onit2day Nov 2018 #13

A horrible and stupid war. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2018 #20

but people who protested this are traitors......... Takket Nov 2018 #3

LBJ lied about the Gulf of Tonkin, and hundreds of thousands of people were still_one Nov 2018 #4

And Eisenhower laid out the "domino theory" in '54 ProudLib72 Nov 2018 #8

Exactly. It wasn't just Nixon, but the actual escalation of that f**king war started with LBJ. still_one Nov 2018 #12

JFK sent in the military first. summer_in_TX Nov 2018 #14

true, but it wasn't a full commitment then. Unfortunately, we learned very little as evidenced by still_one Nov 2018 #18

It's been known UTUSN Nov 2018 #5

My hunch on why they waited until now: Baitball Blogger Nov 2018 #7

yep. Not ready for what Trump did though. triron Nov 2018 #9

In ten years they can do one on how Reagan's team worked with the Iranians before that election mjvpi Nov 2018 #10

Not really new news, and not just Nixon Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2018 #11

Bag Man is great srobertss Nov 2018 #17

And yet not one republican will watch, learn, care or change affiliation. Eliot Rosewater Nov 2018 #22

Hitchens told this story in The Trial of Henry Kissinger. DeltaLitProf Nov 2018 #15

As I recall spike91nz Nov 2018 #16

Imagine if a Democrat did it, I am so sick of saying that. Eliot Rosewater Nov 2018 #24

Nixon never got the justice he deserved. He was allowed to live. nt Progressive Jones Nov 2018 #23

K&R Scurrilous Nov 2018 #25

Include Reagan also in committing treason, with the Iranians. brush Nov 2018 #26

Yup, colluded with the Iranians to not bring back the hostages mitch96 Nov 2018 #29

It's alway repug, the ones who wrap themselves in the flag, who commit treason. brush Nov 2018 #31

I had seen reports of this for a while Gothmog Nov 2018 #27

Somewhat OT but I just caught part of a documentary shanny Nov 2018 #28

In '65 I was on a vacation to Bangkok with my folks. panader0 Nov 2018 #30