Google Images... "The Thousand Yard Stare"
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows- Dr. Marjorie Cohn and I have very little in common indeed- except that she has shined a light on a subject that has affected me more profoundly than any other experience in my life- Vietnam. In an effort to make themselves less culpable perhaps, or maybe an attempt to erase some of the guilt, the US government is rewriting the Vietnam War.
Now the Pentagon is planning to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War by launching a $30 million program to rewrite and sanitize its history. Replete with a fancy interactive website, the effort is aimed at teaching schoolchildren a revisionist history of the war. The program is focused on honoring our service members who fought in Vietnam. But conspicuously absent from the website is a description of the antiwar movement, at the heart of which was the GI movement.
Although I find it difficult to believe, I seriously doubt much will be done to paint the "baby-murderers" who fought and died in that Godforsaken shithole in a favorable light. I took a course in college, "The History of the Vietnam War," that covered ONLY the protest movement... I doubt that will change. The email states:
Marjorie Cohn | US Government Sanitizes Vietnam War History
http://truth-out.org/news/item/26842-us-government-sanitizes-vietnam-war-history
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: The Pentagon is planning to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War by launching a $30 million program to rewrite and sanitize its history. Conspicuously absent from the website is a description of the antiwar movement, at the heart of which was the GI movement.
Although there were quite a few GI's that protested the war, they were far different than the neo-marxist leftists embraced by Dr. Cohn and her compatriots. We were the dregs of society, scraped off every street corner in America- we protested because we had experienced the horrors of war and wanted to protect others like ourselves... unlike the leftists championed by Dr. Cohn- the Bill Clintons and John Podesta's who got deferments and protested from the comfort of college dorms while we lived in the shit (even after we returned). We were the ones who got spit on and had baggies full of excrement thrown at us when we came home. I wonder if that's what Dr. Cohn is objecting to having been omitted?
I do applaud her activism on behalf of the victims of Agent Orange- weapons such as that have no place in warfare. But her diatribe could have easily have been named "How the Protestors Won Vietnam." There is one statement that I absolutely take exception to and would like to see her statistical support statements:
聽Thousands of GIs participated in the antiwar movement. Many felt betrayed by their government. They established coffee houses and underground newspapers where they shared information about resistance. During the course of the war, more than 500,000 soldiers deserted. The strength of the rebellion of ground troops caused the military to shift to an air war. Ultimately, the war claimed the lives of 58,000 Americans. Untold numbers were wounded and returned with post-traumatic stress disorder. In an astounding statistic, more Vietnam veterans have committed suicide than were killed in the war.聽
I challenge that 500,000 deserted... we made an obligation and stood by it- like it or not. People like her, Bill Clinton, Podesta and their ilk desert- they have no honor. Many did commit suicide, because of the way they were treated by people like Dr Cohn when they returned, not the war.
Dr. Cohn wants the story told through the lens of the protest movement, spoiled, entitled children too valuable to put their lives on the line when duty called. I want the truth to be told:
聽In the Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973, the Nixon administration pledged to contribute $3 billion toward healing the wounds of war and the post-war reconstruction of Vietnam. That promise remains unfulfilled.聽
The promise remains unfulfilled because of the Democrats, not Nixon. The North Vietnamese surrendered at the Paris Accords, but the Democrats and their allies in the MSM had Nixon impeached... they couldn't stand the idea of winning the war. They had a more long-term plan to implement Socialism in the US. Yes, both Dr. Cohn and I object to the sanitization of the Vietnam War... but for very different reasons. She sees it as a propaganda opportunity- I want the truth to be taught. The Podesta's, Clintons and the rest of the globalist cabal look at things sometimes 50 years down the road. Vietnam was just a part of the plan- had we won, there would have been optimism in America as there was after WWII. Even though the rules of engagement were designed to ensure a loss, we won anyway. With standard military operations (rules of engagement) the war would have lasted 6 months at the most. The Socialist cabal needed a loss so Nixon was impeached. People like Dr. Cohn are useful idiots- purveyors of propaganda.
http://marjoriecohn.com/us-government-sanitizes-vietnam-war-history/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/19985
