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Voltaire2

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2. Not my recollection.

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Tue Jan 7, 2020, 02:49 PM

Jan 2020

Everybody was all on board the Cold War Commie Containment Express Train until shit started unraveling at home. It was 300 of our kids dead every week and the people out in the streets that forced our 'leaders' to have another think.

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A lot of current leaders in the U.S. watched the Viet Nam War with skepticism. [View all] Stuart G Jan 2020 OP

Proved how useless a lot of 'leaders' were and are. elleng Jan 2020 #1

Not my recollection. Voltaire2 Jan 2020 #2

Additionally Generic Other Jan 2020 #3