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Post by Libby on Jun 3, 2021 0:25:01 GMT
Honestly, I think the negative thoughts on the Vietnam are so far in the past, that I doubt there would be many, if any. The only time I see anyone mention it is when people say to thank a Vietnam vet because of the bad reception they got when they returned from war. But that was decades ago. And that's usually only around Memorial day and Veteran's day.
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Post by martindn on Jun 3, 2021 8:31:56 GMT
Yes, Libby I agree. We tend to put these things behind us. I know my country wasn't involved in Vietnam, but most people nowadays are too young to remember the sixties anyway. They probably don't think about the wars we were involved in like the Korean War, Suez and The Falklands. Or even Afghanistan. The world was a different place back then.
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Post by crissyt on Jun 3, 2021 20:31:18 GMT
Hello Folks,
Dave, for what it's worth, I think it's right to make it public. One should not allow onself to be too intimidated by the "what ifs". That said, I also suggest you keep a close eye on this and be ready to retract quickly if, as you say, things become unpleasant.
Being old, it's quite beyond me why the lunatic fringe swing the "nasty spotlight" on to just about anything these days. I suppose a huge slice of it, with the internet and social media now being available, is because they can. It seems to have become steadily worse since C19 appeared over the horizon. I suppose they've got less to do.
One of the grave errors many of them make is judging the past against the standards (or apparent standards to them) of the present. A crass and ill-informed error in my opinion.
If the Vietnam war is likely to light their metaphorical "blue touch-paper", which was only 50 years ago (I can just remember it on the news), then for goodness sake avoid anything from before that!
The piece itself? Simply beautiful. A halcyon era. I hope that it doesn't turn out to be the high water mark era as well.
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