Reply to "Question for my friends on the DTBB"

jeff6559Member

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Originally posted by accobra:
Listen, I was young during Vietnam and there were protests during that WAR, I'm so proud to live now, when that is NOT taking place, we learned from that. We respect and support the troops 100% even if we have different opinions.
Ron

Almost 60,000 American soldiers died in the Vietnam conflict before America withdrew, not to mention the estimated 1.5 million Vietnamese. I am as patriotic as the next guy, but please don't discount the effect the grass roots protests had in speeding up the decision to withdraw from a war America was not winning and had little prospect of turning around.

Speeding up the decision saved a lot of soldiers' lives that would have been uselessly lost otherwise. What better way to "support the troops."

Jeff (not looking for a fight)
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3/12/068:37 AM

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