Why were so many Vietnam veterans returning home to the U.S.A. treated like garbage and spit at?
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Hello, I was astounded when I learned of the returning G.I.'s from Vietnam being treated like garbage, being spit at in the face, and being called "baby killers." Why did they take the blame of their government's actions when many of them were forced to fight in the first place? Was this the way television and media was born into showing only the bad things done by America, and none of the good? Thank you.
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Walter Cronkite lead the vilification of US troops. Cronkite was a communist and wanted the US to loose so communism would expand into Vietnam and more. Jane Fonda was shmoozing with the communists - wife of Ted Turner of CNN. It is similar to current media having body counts daily, wanting to show the coffins daily, and blaming Bush for war crimes while Bush was in office, but have been absolutely silent while Obama is in office. April 2012 was the bloodiest month of the war and not much said by the current media. It is all about promoting an ideology through propaganda and media control to do it. It is the same reason most of what is going today on is either kept hidden or is twisted around by the media. It is part of communist objectives. There were 45 goals presented to congress in 1963. Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963 From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen 11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.) 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks. 29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. 18. Gain control of all student newspapers. 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions. 21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms." 23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. Since the term "Communism" denoted a negative connotation, the communists relabeled themselves as "Progressives" and "Liberals" in the 1930's ______________________________________…
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You got it, the media discovered that if you showed really horrific things and the bad side of the US it increases their ratings. So years of the media making US troops like nothing more than sadistic killers resulted in them being treated like garbage when they returned.
Samurai Come!
This is a Myth about Vietnam Vets. Most Vets returned to secure jobs, earning above average income and just got on with their lives like everyone els. See the Web Page 'Ten Myths about the Vietnam War'. Sad to say some Vets, a small minority, became drug or alcohol addicted drifters, this is very sad, but happens in all countries.
John
fighting for a country that doesn't give a dam about them, the same could be said with today war or whatever u want to call it
Wesley Sing
call 911!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Averei
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