The Vietnam War

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  1. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    Yeah its by Ken burns the guy who did the civil war and baseball. It was all on PBS originally. Everything he does is very well done.
     
  2. el005639

    el005639 Founding Member

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    My dad is a Korean war vet but he felt very deaply for the way the vietnam guys were treated. Maybe because the Korea guys were also treated with almost no respect.
     
  3. stevescookin

    stevescookin Certified Who Dat

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    Viet Nam is why I'm already against the next war.
     
  4. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    Meh don't go that far.

    Under the right circumstances it's okay. Vietnam was just a big C.F. from the start
     
  5. COTiger

    COTiger 2010 Bowl Pick 'Em Champ

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    And it only got worse.
     
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  6. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    They never tried to win.
     
  7. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    They couldn't win

    At least not with the strategy they had. Watching this show I'm not sure if there would have been one that would have worked.
     
  8. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Mine Haiphong Harbor and carpet bomb Hanoi.
     
  9. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    100 more tons than was dropped in WWII I think was the number I heard. That was just on the Ho Chi Minh trail. They just kept coming. This is the exact thinking that the command had and exactly why it never worked. Gross miscalculation of the pulse of the people.
     
  10. GiantDuckFan

    GiantDuckFan be excellent to each other Staff Member

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    ..... and if we'd won, what would we have gained? Look how it's worked out,.. Vietnam is now known as "the tiger of the Pacific", a capitalistic dynamo,.. Nike's production alone in Vietnam (2014), more than 330,000 workers in 67 factories.
     

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