The Vietnam war

We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.
--Ronald Reagan, 1964.


    See, the Vietnam war started with the French and Vietnamese fighting and then Communist North vietnam trying to take over south vietnam. The Americans seen this as a DIRECT threat to democracy, seeing that there has already been a domino effect, in play already (China/Russia's influence on Vietnam) and then Communism will spread, spread, spread in a "Domino effect" as country, by country they fall to Communism.

There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.
--Philip Caputo, 1982


The war turned out to be NOTHING they expected to be.

Langston Hughes: Let America Be America Again

"O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")" 

--Langston Hughes

Well Langston Hughes touched on the thought that America, isn't the america that has been advertised "false patriotic wreath". How America is advertised as "the land of libertyy" but "There's never been equality for me" back in the early 20th century. How the same people who came over for freedom enslaved Africans. Because in America I know FOSHOO that blacks were in the senate, and in presidential elections in the early 20th century. I mean equality was promised too right? But no the strong is able to over power the weak and the weak sits at the bottom with no one to speak, for them and the situation of "dog eats dog" repeats. right? See this is what Mr. Hughes preached in his, "Let America Be America Again" speech.

"I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!"

Im sure this passage is pretty much self explanatory saying how the greed in America is so strong that they don't care about the people and the men's well being as long as they're getting more wealth than they actually need.
And this my friend, is THEE truth. Amen.