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:/ Wowh.
I don't know many people at all who served in Vietnam during the war. :[ My great uncle served in the Korean War and died several years ago..none of my older uncles ever even enlisted, because they were too young I think. :{ I just know a lot of Vets came back to homelessness, joblessness, underappreciation and ill-treatment. Especially during a time where Civil Rights was being fought for. :/
I didn't talk to him, but at an ice cream store, a guy came in with a cane and an army hat who was a Vietnam vet, and he was talking to the ice cream guy about it. He looked like a very sad santa claus that has seen some shit.
I think some lady or some dude thanked him for his service and he just told them something like, "Nah, don't thank me. Nobody should be thanked for what we did over there. I'm not proud of any of it."
o-o Can't recall the rest of the conversation, but he just walked out saying goodbye and seemed both chill and outspoken but very disheartened. <:[ No one but other Vets from Vietnam know what he went though...
Almost done watching this documentary series on the history and reality of the Vietnam war. 0-0 It really was a losing war, with lasting damage and US government did it's best to cover up the fact that we lost it and it wasn't even necessary. <:[ Eesh..I'm glad I'm learning more about it though. Never learned about it in all my years of history classes.