If we had the internet and today's media consolidation during the Sixties, we'd still be winning in Vietnam!
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Heartlander · 80-89, M
What defeated South Vietnam was corruption. Corruption in South Vietnam, corruption in the USA. The part of the Vietnam story that was never reported, because the media is as corrupt as the corrupt, self serving politicians.
PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
Well I do agree the media cartels are a problem there is no way that was going to change Vietnam's outcome. See the 20 year failure of the War on Terror.
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Heartlander · 80-89, M
@swirlie
Yes, forgiveness, love and living for a purpose. And maybe the other half of forgiveness, atonement. I imagine the father would be in his eighties now. It's so sad to see people so weighted down for so long, and doubly sad when it weighs down the whole family and children :( Your friend was a casualty of the war, just like his dad.
We have a close relative that married the son of a Vietnam war MIA/KIA that he never knew, and what he knew of his dad was filtered through his mom through the long unresolved status, starting before he was born and eventually settling on presumably dead years later.
Their marriage survived less than a year, supposedly because the son was still
inescapably bonded to the tragedy of the dad he never knew. Like an incomplete chapter that he couldn't leave unfinished.
For me, personally, the inspiration of others helps break those link. Seeing others survive horrible experiences can be like an escape hatch from the weight of my own misfortunes. If you can't escape it's like you are adding yourself to the casualty list.
Thanks for your insights and tips about writing. I've always at least partly lived in my own head, and writing is like sharing headpiece with whoever is reading. I learned this as a teen with a girlfriend that sent 15 page letters every day.
Yes, forgiveness, love and living for a purpose. And maybe the other half of forgiveness, atonement. I imagine the father would be in his eighties now. It's so sad to see people so weighted down for so long, and doubly sad when it weighs down the whole family and children :( Your friend was a casualty of the war, just like his dad.
We have a close relative that married the son of a Vietnam war MIA/KIA that he never knew, and what he knew of his dad was filtered through his mom through the long unresolved status, starting before he was born and eventually settling on presumably dead years later.
Their marriage survived less than a year, supposedly because the son was still
inescapably bonded to the tragedy of the dad he never knew. Like an incomplete chapter that he couldn't leave unfinished.
For me, personally, the inspiration of others helps break those link. Seeing others survive horrible experiences can be like an escape hatch from the weight of my own misfortunes. If you can't escape it's like you are adding yourself to the casualty list.
Thanks for your insights and tips about writing. I've always at least partly lived in my own head, and writing is like sharing headpiece with whoever is reading. I learned this as a teen with a girlfriend that sent 15 page letters every day.
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