Sort of. Your early part is inaccurate. The problem started with the French, and Truman was the President who first started sending advisors and materiel to support the anti-Communist forces.
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To the world, it showed that the US would use force to stop the spread of communism. In the US it resulted in 18 year old US citizens being given the right to vote, as the age had been 21. The war also terminated the conscript system in whi...
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They were and are only if you happen to share the political worldview of the writers and directors who created them. Look at films that were produced pretty close to when the conflict was still going on, like THE GREEN BERETS, one of the ...
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Heres a real quick history lesson. 1. Vietnam was a colony of France. 1.Japan invaded Vietnam in WW ll. 2.The US sent the OSS into Vietnam, to work with ho che mien to harass the Japanese. 3. After the war, France actually rearmed the Japan...
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I'll agree with your assessment, with the understanding that LBJ was such an incredibly poor judge of character that he never should have picked or ratained Robert S. McNamara as SecDef. Between the two of them, 58,ooo names should never ha...
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No. Your Mum is important. And your dad
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because it was one of the longest and bloodiest wars in American History, It was number wise, worse than the civil war I think, not 100 percent sure, but pretty sure. It was incredibly controversial as it lasted so long and there were so ma...
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