tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086136476855589174.post5537017384247715602..comments2024-03-27T02:15:30.590-07:00Comments on AS IT STANDS: May 4, 1970: The Kent State Massacre & the Cambodian CampaignImBlogCrazyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06114155503257613636noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086136476855589174.post-46446942460849710102022-04-27T18:31:21.545-07:002022-04-27T18:31:21.545-07:00Aside from discount code, bonuses which are a way ...Aside from discount code, bonuses which are a way of rewarding loyal customers are available as well. You earn a bonus based <a href="https://privatewriting.net/blog/how-to-write-persuasive-essay" rel="nofollow">persuade paper</a> on points you accumulate every time you order. You can then use it to pay for your subsequent paper in part.Tommy543https://www.blogger.com/profile/15576969685631964863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086136476855589174.post-1408150918783138302009-05-05T17:02:00.000-07:002009-05-05T17:02:00.000-07:00Thank you Ernie and Oldmanriver.
Your words help m...Thank you Ernie and Oldmanriver.<br />Your words help more than you know.<br />Peace...ImBlogCrazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06114155503257613636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086136476855589174.post-25138582883172482332009-05-05T16:53:00.000-07:002009-05-05T16:53:00.000-07:00Dave... thank you so much for sharing your story. ...Dave... thank you so much for sharing your story. I am sorry that you still suffer from your experience. What you shared moved me. <br />There are scenes in Apocalypse Now showing the dispirit of the troops that I always assumed was exaggerated. Your offerings suggest it was widespread. Hell.<br />I hope you have support in your life. <br />Great contribution to getting all the stories of that time out. Thank you.olmanrivernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086136476855589174.post-53991046038527190452009-05-05T15:53:00.000-07:002009-05-05T15:53:00.000-07:00Dave, you graphically demonstrated the feeling of ...Dave, you graphically demonstrated the feeling of the time. It was our generation that was manning the war. Although I was lucky and never spent any time in the service, I had friends that did. Like you, I lost one of my best friends to a land mine about a week after he arrived.<br /><br />As some others have expressed, the people that I was raised around were shocked by the disrespect for the Viet Nam soldier, and the war in general. Most of them were from the McCarthy era when communism was to be defeated at all costs. The student protestors and the draft dodgers were looked down on. The killing of the students at Kent State turned the tide for almost everybody. The feeling was that if we were going to start killing our own people over a war in South-East Asia, it was time to leave. <br /><br />As for me personally, I will forever be grateful for, and humbled by, the service that the Viet Nam soldier gave us. So you didn’t do anything wrong, you did your duty as you were expected to do. You guys returned as Heroes in my mind, even back then. Thanks again! And, thank-you Dave for your story.Ernie Branscombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391160783604462511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086136476855589174.post-15769428553953295302009-05-04T21:11:00.000-07:002009-05-04T21:11:00.000-07:00Looking back, I know that it wouldn't have made a ...Looking back, I know that it wouldn't have made a difference. No doubt at all.<br />I turned 19 while in the Nam. I still believed America could do no wrong.<br />I know we are warmongers and a nation that feels it can impose it's will anywhere in the world. We fought for oil. We fought to save the world from Communism. We fought to make the defense contractors rich, and the lobbyists, and the Senators, and those Chicken Hawks who never went to war, but were ready to send others to their deaths in the name of patriotism.<br />I still cringe and sweat during this time of year. The Monsoon-like rain today didn't help.ImBlogCrazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06114155503257613636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086136476855589174.post-10013986424204919562009-05-04T20:48:00.000-07:002009-05-04T20:48:00.000-07:00Dave...Wow, you grabbed hold of my lungs and stopp...Dave...Wow, you grabbed hold of my lungs and stopped my breath reading this. <br /><br />If I were in the hell you described, I'm not sure I would understand how the Kent State murders changed things for so many people. <br /><br />The deaths of the soldiers should have had the same impact but we grow inured to the deaths of 18 and 19 year old boys once they wear a uniform--somehow their deaths become expected, accepted.<br /><br />I can't be sorry that what happened at Kent State helped stop what I still view as a pumping up of our military presence in the world but thinking of you young boys believing that you could save lives and stop the war with what you were doing hurts.<br /><br />Looking back now, do you think pushing the Cambodian campaign would have had the intended results? Do you really think that if we had "won" that America would have stopped. <br /><br />I think if America had won, we would have tried to steamroll any opposition around the world from then on. We still do but the memory of Vietnam stops the most egregious military offensives.<br /><br />God what a horrible waste of lives all around!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com