I
can't call mine a one man mission, because there are legions of us pissed
off by erstwhile dope smoking hippies turned academics,
who've manhandled the truth about the anti-war 60's-70's. To wax
poetic, I am a thread in that particular bolt of American
tapestry. I went from student to soldier, to student again,
to husband and father toiling in the work force. I lived in five
states from Colorado to Maryland. I know that the American people
wanted Lyndon Johnson to bomb the rice field dikes in North Vietnam,
sending it into economic ruin for a generation; and turning Ho's
insurgents into an army of cup holding beggars. I know there was
a prevailing sentiment for the gummint to flood the hippie drug
market with cyanide laced heroin and poisoned pot. I know that
Americans thought Archie Bunker was "the man," and Meathead a
despicable liberal turd. I know the public wanted arrested hippie
protesters hauled to DC Stadium where wild animals would eat
them. I experienced the visceral anger over networks shilling for
the peaceniks on the evening "news." I know that the public wanted Jane
Fonda hanged, and draft evaders jailed. Was there anyone (who bathed
that week) who didn't want Walter Cronkite fired for his
post-Tet "we lost" statement?" I never met them. I was in
the majority. The way
majority. Which is why The
Truth about Vietnam: Correcting the Record on Tet gives me a
nuclear boner.
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Rog, that's the way I remember it too. Carry it a step forward, and the ultimate injustice of the Twentieth Century was that we didn't hang the left from lamp posts when the wall fell. Three years later, slick willie enters the White House. On the upside, it's never too late to do the right thing.
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Casca, I can't find the quote (because I didn't try), but something like "what a child is taught at age seven can never really be untaught." Hence Clinton and Obama.
ReplyDeleteI was there. We won.
ReplyDeleteI thought mining the NV harbors was a wonderful idea. And the Greeks who got ticked off because one of their freighters hit a mine? Screw 'em. I guess they forgot about how American $$$ from the Marshall Plan saved their country after WWII.
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