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Post by moxohol on Aug 27, 2021 17:52:06 GMT
Vietnam was a meat grinder that no sane person wanted to get into. People initially answered the call & volunteered en mass in the first 2 years of the war starting from March 1965. The Tet Offensive shattered the image that the USA was winning the war hands down & clearly would become a protracted affair. The political blowback was further exacerbated by the legacy media reporting on Tet as an utter route & failure. Nothing could have been further fron the truth. The NVA & VC did what American Generals were itching for: a pitched battle. The US Armed Forces decimated the NVA. So much so that the effects are still being felt today. Vietnamese males between the ages of 20 to 30 years were practically eradicated. U can look it up.
On the other hand, the war was tactically & deceptively mismanaged from the start & the strategic aims were for nothing more than showing europe that Americans were committed to defending them against communism & Russia. Plus, the US Government knowingly propped up an utterly corrupt South Vietnam regime by throwing good money & manpower after bad.
Go read the biography about John Paul Vann, "A Bright Shining Lie". It's a primer for the political bullshit that's been dished out by military ever since. May I remind all that President LBJ & Lady Bird Johnson were key stockholders of Bell Helicopter & were longtime friends of the Bell Family. What was that classic icon of the Vietnam Era? The Huey (Bell Helicopter). Then u have McNamara's Morons that seriously degraded the army's fighting abilities.
By 1969, they were scraping the bottom of the barrel for volunteers & deferrals. So, they started pinching the middle class for more manpower who by that time didn't support the war any longer. "Hell no. We won't go!"(1) Let's not forget that Vietnam was a "police action" not a self-defense war which was sending off young draftees to get killed in a foreign land. That's why the US government was so agreeable to an all volunteer army in 1973. If they announce sending troops to wherever & ur number is called - too bad! U signed up for this shit. They don't give a rat's ass that u enlisted to save up for college or ur the sole means of supporting ur family.
So, against the backdrop of all I've presented thus far, no reasonable person of average intelligence can hang a "draft dodger" jacket on anyone from that era. It's purely defamatory. Like it or not Trump got a legal deferment. He never was a candidate of "stolen valor" nor did he capitalize on the war afterwards with a false sense of patriotism. I could point the finger exactly at John Wayne who could have served in WW2 but didn't. His career & romance with Marlene Dietrich was more important then the war effort. Plus, he had 4 kids & a wife to support at age 34. So, he got his two deferments. But actor Henry Fonda also had 2 kids & a wife to support at age 38 (the draft cutoff age was 35). Yet, he still enlisted & served on a combat ship in the Pacific for 3 years as an intelligence officer. The Vietnam War was a proxy conflict with strong geopolitics involved. That's all.
I've written about all I'm inclined to but it's enough.
(1) Vietnam War U.S. Military Fatal Casualty Statistics | National Archives
www.archives.gov/research/military/vietnam-war/casualty-statistics
On the other hand, the war was tactically & deceptively mismanaged from the start & the strategic aims were for nothing more than showing europe that Americans were committed to defending them against communism & Russia. Plus, the US Government knowingly propped up an utterly corrupt South Vietnam regime by throwing good money & manpower after bad.
Go read the biography about John Paul Vann, "A Bright Shining Lie". It's a primer for the political bullshit that's been dished out by military ever since. May I remind all that President LBJ & Lady Bird Johnson were key stockholders of Bell Helicopter & were longtime friends of the Bell Family. What was that classic icon of the Vietnam Era? The Huey (Bell Helicopter). Then u have McNamara's Morons that seriously degraded the army's fighting abilities.
By 1969, they were scraping the bottom of the barrel for volunteers & deferrals. So, they started pinching the middle class for more manpower who by that time didn't support the war any longer. "Hell no. We won't go!"(1) Let's not forget that Vietnam was a "police action" not a self-defense war which was sending off young draftees to get killed in a foreign land. That's why the US government was so agreeable to an all volunteer army in 1973. If they announce sending troops to wherever & ur number is called - too bad! U signed up for this shit. They don't give a rat's ass that u enlisted to save up for college or ur the sole means of supporting ur family.
So, against the backdrop of all I've presented thus far, no reasonable person of average intelligence can hang a "draft dodger" jacket on anyone from that era. It's purely defamatory. Like it or not Trump got a legal deferment. He never was a candidate of "stolen valor" nor did he capitalize on the war afterwards with a false sense of patriotism. I could point the finger exactly at John Wayne who could have served in WW2 but didn't. His career & romance with Marlene Dietrich was more important then the war effort. Plus, he had 4 kids & a wife to support at age 34. So, he got his two deferments. But actor Henry Fonda also had 2 kids & a wife to support at age 38 (the draft cutoff age was 35). Yet, he still enlisted & served on a combat ship in the Pacific for 3 years as an intelligence officer. The Vietnam War was a proxy conflict with strong geopolitics involved. That's all.
I've written about all I'm inclined to but it's enough.
(1) Vietnam War U.S. Military Fatal Casualty Statistics | National Archives
www.archives.gov/research/military/vietnam-war/casualty-statistics