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Posted by SMAZ on Tue May 26 09:51:19 2015, in response to Re: Remembering a buddy from high school who died in Vietnam, posted by SLRT on Tue May 26 09:33:12 2015. I'm interested in that. What studies?I read it somewhere a while ago. Not on the Internet but in some journal. It destroyed the stereotype of the typical Vietnam Vet being some Travis Bickle-like character. I had always suspected this but that study confirmed it. I don't remember what journal it was or who conducted the study. Society changed more than the justifications for war. Only one generation had gone by in the less than 20 years from the end of WW2 to the beginning of the Vietnam War. Societal changes alone don't explain the different attitudes to those wars. The existential threat from the attack on Pearl Harbor and Nazi aggression as opposed to the bullshit casus belli of the Gulf of Tonkin attack and the lack of existence of ANY threat to the US way of life by a remote civil war in Vietnam is what explains it. |
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