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Religions > Atheism |
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"Gods Creator! TEXT & HTML" |
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07 Feb 2007 02:02:24 AM |
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VIET NAM: HOW THE SOLDIERS STOPPED THE WAR |
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Thus Spake: *G* *O* *D* *S* *C* *R* *E* *A* *T* *O* *R*
"The Vietnam war was not stopped by large, legal protests alone
It was stopped by the very GI's who were ordered to fight it."
The American military in Vietnam was mostly made up of working class
conscripts and enlistees; their officers, on the other hand, tended to
be from the middle and upper middle class. The officers - or "lifers" as
they were called derisively - often put their men in deadly situations,
in order to get promotions. This was not the only source of tension. GIs
increasingly resented the fact that they had been lied to; they were not
defending democracy in South Vietnam, they were defending a hated
police-dictatorship.
In the U.S., some young workers were becoming radicalized by the ghetto
uprisings and wildcat strikes, and came into contact with left-wing
ideas through the student anti-war movement. Other young workers drafted
in these years were radicalized after they went into the army - when
they came into conflict with the "lifers" and were forced to defend a
government that the Vietnamese didn't want to defend.
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God's Creator!
(I am Life & Death) 8-)
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<div align="center"><b><font color="#009900"><big>Thus Spake: *G* *O*
*D* *S* *C* *R* *E* *A* *T* *O* *R*<br>
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<div align="center"><b><big>"The Vietnam war was not stopped by large,
legal protests alone </big></b><br>
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<div align="center"><b><big>It was stopped by the very GI's who were
ordered to fight it."</big></b><br>
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The American military in Vietnam was mostly made up of working class
conscripts and enlistees; their officers, on the other hand, tended to
be from the middle and upper middle class. The officers - or "lifers"
as they were called derisively - often put their men in deadly
situations, in order to get promotions. This was not the only source of
tension. GIs increasingly resented the fact that they had been lied to;
they were not defending democracy in South Vietnam, they were defending
a hated police-dictatorship.<br>
<br>
In the U.S., some young workers were becoming radicalized by the ghetto
uprisings and wildcat strikes, and came into contact with left-wing
ideas through the student anti-war movement. Other young workers
drafted in these years were radicalized after they went into the army -
when they came into conflict with the "lifers" and were forced to
defend a government that the Vietnamese didn't want to defend.<br>
<br>
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Continued</a></b><br>
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<div align="center"><b><font color="#009900"><big><big>God's Creator! </big></big></font></b><br>
<b>(<font color="#cc0000">I am Life & Death</font>) <span
class="moz-smiley-s11"><span> 8-) </span></span></b><br>
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