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Originally Posted by BMFMonoxide
Did you serve? I'm just asking because two of my uncles did. One was killed in 1968 and the other was wounded in 1971. It nearly tore my mother's family apart. Both opposed the war. My uncle who survived is currently a military recruiter (the Army reserves). He has told me about what it was like back then to the smallest detail (not the least of which is his unflattering opinion of the counter-culture movement). I convinced him to be 100% candid with me because I told him it was for my final report in High school. One thing that I thought was cool was that he admitted to smoking weed over there.
His current position on Vietnam is that we shouldn't have gone in but the way that many people in the anti-war movement acted actually led to more deaths. That's not to say that any person who opposed the war should have kept their mouths shut. However, there's a responsible way to protest and stand up for what you believe without trying to bring down the country whose freedoms you're exploiting. People like Jane Fonda never understood that.
***I really don't want to get in a debate with you. I don't particularly like you very much, to be honest. We got into a debate some months ago and you called me every name under the sun. All I did was voice a fairly moderate position of Iraq and you tried painting me as a right-wing, foaming-at-the-mouth war hungry zealot. Apparently, I wasn't far enough to the Left for your tastes.***
P.S. Playing the "I was alive back then so my opinion is superior to yours" is extremely lame. The only reason you were around back then before I was born is because your parents fucked before my parents did. The only reason you probably think that the hippies ended the War is because you were one of those hippies. Those seem to be the only people who have the nerve to suggest such bullshit.
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What's the difference if I served? What a shock your uncle, the RECRUITER, has a less than flattering opinion on the counter culture. And of course he would be 100% candid with you, after all it was your high school final report.
I fail to see how the anti-war movement caused more deaths. If no one opposed the war it would have went merrily on its way resulting in many more deaths. I know this goes against the perception of your uncle, the RECRUITER.
I don't give a shit if you like me. If I called you every name under the sun it certainly wasn't over any "moderate" opinion of yours concerning Iraq. Of course what you consider moderate might have something to do with it, after all J- Wonder considered himself to be a moderate also.
Yeah, shame on me for forming an opinion based on living thru something compared to yours which is based on the opinion of your uncle, the RECRUITER. And since I'm probably as old or older than your parents I'm lost on how I was born before you because my parents fucked before yours. By the way, I never said the hippies ended the war and no I wasn't a hippie. I didn't become one until I did my time in the army.