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Re: Remembering a buddy from high school who died in Vietnam |
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Posted by SLRT on Tue May 26 06:50:51 2015, in response to Re: Remembering a buddy from high school who died in Vietnam, posted by 3-9 on Tue May 26 06:37:52 2015. The scorn has diminished (it's been a half-century, after all) and I almost never run into "avoider vets" I don't already know any more.I don't know if there are any studies of the phenomenon and I think there are psychological reasons, as well. Remember that during the Vietnam the default meaning of the phrase "what did you do during the war, daddy?" was still "why didn't you serve?" So I think there was some self-justification going on. I've been called a warmonger, a baby killer (by association), a fool, various political judgments, and similar sentiments. One thing that's given me pause is that, when visiting couples of my generation, the men would tend to try to diminish me for serving, but THEIR women would defend me. What do we make of that? |
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