Wednesday, August 12, 2015

I am a veteran. I reserve the right to have an opinion about this article. Not because I'm a veteran mind you, people like me have preserved your right to voice your opinion on it. No, I have that right because I read the article.

I am a veteran. I reserve the right to have an opinion about this article. Not because I'm a veteran mind you, people like me have preserved your right to voice your opinion on it. No, I have that right because I read the article.
If you believe that you can say something about this then I have just one question for you. Did you even bother to read it ? Because if you didn't take the time to read it, then please don't bother.
http://www.newsweek.com/its-time-haul-down-another-flag-racist-hate-361929
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11 comments:

  1. Dave DeBaeremaekerAugust 12, 2015 at 9:24 AM

    Hrm.  Had no idea of this history.

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  2. ted kellyAugust 12, 2015 at 9:32 AM

    I'd say probably 99% of the internet savvy peeps just bitching up a storm all over the place either didn't know or forgot. Of course that's a perfect reason to scream bloody murder - not reading it before grabbing the caps lock...
    I myself got kicked out of gym class in '69 for wearing a copper MIA wrist  band though, to be honest.  Boys don't wear bracelets, dontcha know ?

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  3. Dave DeBaeremaekerAugust 12, 2015 at 9:34 AM

    All of Vietnam was before my time (I was born in 1974), and I grew up in a different country, so I really didn't experience any of the poiltics of it.  I've read history about it, and read some books, but its not the same as living thru it at any level.

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  4. Tamara Chaos & DD starAugust 12, 2015 at 9:40 AM

    I think the whole thing is so stupid.

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  5. ted kellyAugust 12, 2015 at 10:56 AM

    They say that we should learn from history, or repeat it. They also say that when you're deep in a hole you should stop digging. 
    It's funny how things can get twisted both around and also together. Life's like that I guess...

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  6. ted kellyAugust 12, 2015 at 10:59 AM

    Dave DeBaeremaeker the "take away" is probably not lost on you though, I'd guess.
    War is bad for children and other living things.

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  7. Dave DeBaeremaekerAugust 12, 2015 at 11:01 AM

    War sucks, and fighting one makes everyone concerned an asshole.

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  8. Max BolanAugust 13, 2015 at 10:37 PM

    I've read of Agent Orange and Napalm, but don't remember reading about Tiger Cages.

    Apart, I find something silly about war - especially wars fought in SE Asia (Far East to Americans).

    What is that about wars fought there that people still hark back to it in so divisive terms?

    China on Japanese brutal Nanking Massacre.
    Korea on the Sex Slaves issue.
    Japan itself on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
    Americans and 'Nam - especially MIA/POW.
    The Killing Fields of Cambodia.

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  9. Max BolanAugust 14, 2015 at 9:08 AM

    ted kelly Do you in USA have 'One Rank One Pension (ORAP)'?  That is a 'Nam Vet gets the same pension as the guy with the same rank retiring ''today'?

    Reason I want to know is this ORAP is all the rage back home in India these days.

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  10. ted kellyAugust 14, 2015 at 9:30 AM

    I don't think so. Homelessness among Vietnam Vets is all the rage here these days.

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  11. Max BolanAugust 14, 2015 at 9:39 AM

    ted kelly That's one of the rage which is hamstringing our Parliament this season. :-(

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