It's stunning how many people seem to forget that there are other countries on the planet that use dollars and weren't involved in Vietnam. No, I'm not making an assumption. The person who posted this is Canadian.
Y'all really need to take a step back and reflect a little bit.
They left out the part about getting drafted and sent to Vietnam with that 3rd grade education and risk dying for people that didn't care about you and other that hated you. Then coming home and getting spit on, literally spit on, by the people around you. And no one caring about the damage war caused you.
There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters during the late 1960s and early 1970s. These stories, which overwhelmingly surfaced many years after the war, usually involve an antiwar female spitting on a veteran, often yelling "baby killer". Most occur in U.S. civilian airports, usually San Francisco International, as GIs returned from the war zone in their uniforms.
No unambiguous documented incident of this behavior has ever surfaced, despite repeated and concerted efforts to uncover them.
Which all would be lovely and true if they were American.
They're not.
It's almost like countries other than the United States exist...
Never heard an old black man say "I wish things were like they were back in the 50s."
Nope nor a dirt poor white person either. Never forget, it's all about the money and far less than the color of your skin.
The ideal life is to be born a multi-millionaire, then earn billions by exploiting workers
I always thought I would have made a good trust fund baby.
I'd rather be born a billionaire so I don't have to do shit
could you live with yourself though?
If I was born rich, I'd probably have no empathy either.
How are you supposed to develop it?
I don't think dying at 54 is ideal...
Look at this guy with his "hopes" for a "future"
I am so tired of people presuming that ~~US's economic history is somehow universal.~~ all countries have first world economy of western hemisphere, more specifically, the anglosphere. Boy do I love cultural hegemony.
This comment section is kind of hysterical. Some people saying "STOP IT ALWAYS BEING ABOUT AMERICA" and other people going "Vietnam because America" and I'm here as a Canadian like
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And before you ask, yes. The person who tweeted that is Canadian.
i am here like ok then. go drink your maple syrup i guess. sorry i just don't understand what you are trying to convey.
My point is that you immediately went "Not all countries had the economy of America" but this isn't about America and I find that both funny and sad.
Everyone instantly goes to pointing fingers and saying "AMERICAN" and in doing so effectively treat Canada like it doesn't exist. Either Americans are too bought into (whether they realize it or not) American Exceptionalism or foreigners are too focused on them because they're loud as hell.
ok hold on imma fix my comment, so its correct and respects the first worlder outlook on geography.
The ideal life is dying when you're only 54? That's pretty bleak!
Fuck I hope not. I’m 54 now.
June 19th 2026. I'll see you soon.
If you were a vet and saw combat in Vietnam, that was the cancer you got from all the Agent Orange they sprayed on you that killed you......
Longer than I expect to live
But probably true!
being prime military age for the vietnam war? no, please got no
Countries other than the United States exist and my country was the one people ran away to in order to avoid the draft. Also the same country of the person who posted this.
Also literally any day could be the one the Bomb dropped. It's easy to forget how close we came, or how fucking terrifying it was that you had no way of knowing.
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with being born after the draft became less used and I'm now old enough to not qualify for the draft anymore. Life is pretty good.
As long as you're white
And a man.
And lived in US
And cishet
And able bodied
And secretly homosexual
And resemble a wasp
Didn't work for me... in my 1972 bank job interview I was told, "I'd hire you if you were a man, but you're not. If I hired you, you'd just get pregnant and leave." It wasn't against the law for him to say all that.
And for what it's worth I didn't buy a home - a small one-bed flat - until I was in my 40s. Cost me so much I couldn't afford proper furniture. Yes, my current house is worth a lot more than what I paid for it (mainly because I bought a wreck), but so is any other house I could afford if I sold it.
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
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