17-03-2014, 06:24 PM
LR Trotter Wrote:This will be my last response to the comments, but I will continue to be polite, as I have no need to be otherwise. Myself, I am not a military veteran, but a lot of "Boomers" ended up with their names on a wall after a one-way trip to S/E Asia. And some that came back, did not return with all they left with. Maybe they "get it".
My brother volunteered to go to Vietnam. Went in hating the Commies like all "good Americans" and came out hating the US government -- like all good Americans.
He doesn't get the JFK assassination, either.
In fact, I don't think people "get" the Vietnam War at all.
Was the purpose of the Vietnam War to prevent communists from taking over So. Vietnam -- or was the Vietnam War waged to keep the Corsican Mafia from controlling SE Asian heroin production?
Quote:As for Cyril Wecht, I did not see/read his comments mentioned, but he was about age 15 when the "Baby Boom" era began in 1946.
::vroom::
I'm missing your point. Wecht is not the only target of my critique.
The older cohort -- GreatestGen/Boomer/OlderGenX -- just doesn't do "high strange", ok?
Very few people in that age range can comfortably "go there" -- everyone feels silly talking about bullets that dissolve in the body, in spite of significant evidence that that's exactly what happened.
It's pop cultural conditioning. What else would it be?