We have quite a bit of that here and in public. Invariably it comes from some right wing know nothing know-it-all.
That much is true. But most whites did so from their suburban homes and the browns and blacks from the ghettos. Funny how all those victims fought, supposedly, because the USA is so free and so equal for all - in theory. But in practice, quite another thing.
LOL. That's why right wingers always lose the debates on this forum. Say, by any chance, were you one of those deluded right wingers who thought Muslims would dare say F * * K Jesus? We don't seem to get those claims on this forum anymore ...
So true, especially when done by the far right such as when they quote breitbart's claim that Muslims would dare say F**K Jesus when the Koran clearly identifies him as Messiah. And how many far right pundits on this forum fell for that garbage? I'm still laughing at them to this day.
Christians profane him by refusing to accept him as Prince of Peace - instead, they kill in his name. That is a form of behavior that annoys me as well.
And what you write is also true. I remember keenly that a lot of kids from middle-class homes (and especially fairly wealthy ones) frequently had draft "deferments" -- usually 2-S (for college). As long as those guys made passing grades overall, they couldn't be drafted and pressed into the Army -- and, some were even drafted into the Marine Corps. There actually were some individual "draft boards" located in what you might think of as very 'patriotic' parts of the country that yanked students right out of college back in 1966 and 1967, but that was relatively rare. I actually saw that happen in 1966, in Texas! What was a very common occurance was for poor kids, who weren't in college, to be drafted immediately after turning 18. These poor kids, who were often Black and Brown, and also with LOTS of "poor, White trash" were shoved through military basic training as fast as possible and then shipped off to Vietnam. They died by the thousands....
not all wealthy and educated could defer, that is why the vietnam and korean vets were the most elite fighting force the volunteer force is more oppressed after manufacturing was replaced by energy
What I remember, acutely, is that among most of us, the Vietnam War was very confused, and as time ground on, it was increasingly unpopular. Young guys (as I was then) who were just going into college, didn't mind the concept of serving the required time in the military, but we wanted to be able to finish our educations first! But within two years of Johnson's big Vietnam build-up in 1965, huge numbers of us were being drafted, for a war that appeared to have neither reason, nor an ending. More and more, it looked to us like the United States had 'butted into' somebody else's civil war -- which had been going on already for decades! The Vietnam War was increasing viewed by a lot of us young people as a pointless, winless war which was prolonged needlessly by big American business interests which were enjoying a financial bonanza with lots of government contracts. Whatever the real motives were, a LOT of American 'kids' were dying or being badly wounded -- and a great many of them were the poor guys who were drafted. I don't usually recommend Ken Burns as a documentary-maker who is always unbiased, and who rises above a certain manipulative analysis of the subject matter he works with. Burns has skirted the 'edge' of fact-based objectivity while injecting a fairly large dose of his own well-known liberal sentiments in at least two of his famous documentaries -- "The Civil War", and, "The War" (about World War II). That said, his production of a ten-part film series called, "The Vietnam War" is, in my opinion, very focused, unusually (for Burns) unbiased, very factual, and very worthwhile to anyone who wishes to understand this terrible tragedy that sewed the seeds for a roiling mistrust, suspicion, and resentment that many Americans came to feel toward our government, and the aftermath of it has lasted to this day! This production can be rented, or purchased as a set, used, for less than $30.
If ever there was a sure-fire recipe for disaster it was for France to be farting around in Vietnam. France had been a disillusioned, disorganized, defeated country after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815! They really haven't amounted to anything since then, right up to this present date in 2019. Poor France... but, they did it to themselves, and got to the point after they were humiliated by the Germans in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 where they had no pride, no ability to really defend themselves, and, maybe worst of all, they didn't even care.... No wonder that France today is such a quagmire of corruption, contentious factionalism, and crime, with 'immigrants' wandering around in hordes causing so much trouble.
the french are a nuclear power, but they have a history of surrender and may give them away to an enemy to avoid war.
Sic potest petere.... When we mash all the air bubbles out of it, our European languages end up being about 70% derived from Latin, and about 30% derived from Greek.
That is not true since different languages have developed in their very own and unique ecology. Linguists classify languages into groups and sub-groups and it is thus possible to tract languages' heritage and relatedness. Although most European languages - for obvious reasons - have Greek and Latin loanwords, it is an exaggerated falsehood to claim all "European languages" (not a valid linguistic term) are "70% Latin and 30% Greek". As if there were no people living outside Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
OK, without protest I'll concede the point. I'm not a language 'savant'. Mine was a Bach. of Science degree, and German was the only language I learned to speak with any proficiency. Made a 'C' in college Latin, so, you win!
