Bill Young shoots himself

[Bangkoktraveler]

US Special Forces were indeed defeating the Viet Cong. That's why Hanoi openly sent in the NV Army.

 

From the contact I had with Southern civilians, I'd say they may not have been thrilled with their government - but they were just plain frightened of Hanoi. People tend to forget that a million had fled the North when the communists took over there. It is thought another half million would have fled as well, but the communists stopped them. And no they were NOT all Roman Catholics, as the anti-war protestors loved to claim. Most who fled were Buddhists. I used to want to frag the protestors when I was back in the States, because they were so ignorant and full of BS. They weren't anti-war, many were just plain pro-communist. They refused to judge Hanoi for anything it did, but were oh so critical of Saigon. The double standard was sickening. And God forbid the protestors should ever do anything for someone else - say join the Peace Corps or VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) and work in Appalachia or on an Indian reservation. I remember how much I despised the hypocritical arseholes.

 

[color:red]Notice how anti-war protests have all but ceased[/color], now that no one need worry about being conscripted and sent to fight anymore. Coincidence, do you suppose?

 

 

 

It seems protesting is almost illegal now a days in most parts of the USA.

[Flashermac]

He had me at "metha-amphetamine". What the fuck is that? and 1/3 addicted? Bullshit.

 

 

Pot smoking was fairly common - I'd say around 5% to 10% of the guys in my company might light up on occasion (when it was safe to be stoned). We had one speed freak - a cook who said to me one day, "You look like you are talking in slow motion." No heroin use at all that I ever heard of, and no way to get it. Guys in non-combat units may have been into drugs, but saying 1/3rd of the US military in South Vietnam were druggies is the most assinine thing I have ever heard. By far the "drug of choice" was beer. Only senior NCOs and commissioned officers had access to Scotch or Bourbon.