On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:36:51 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 2/6/14, 4:25 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 13:19:13 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote:


Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks.
In Germany, Marlboro was king.


And China.


In retrospect I always believed we fought in Vietnam to make the
country safe for Budweiser and Marlboro. It is a shame we didn't tell
the guys getting killed that at the time.
Hell I tried to go twice myself when I thought it was for freedom and
democracy. Wiser heads prevailed and both of my requests were denied.

I tried to go once, just for money at IBM and that was denied too.



Weren't you fellows aware of Thích Qu?ng ??c, who set himself on fire in
1963 to protest the oppression of the Di?m government? There was no real
question of freedom and democracy in Vietnam, even after Di?m was
assassinated and through the dozen or so governments that followed.

I think we were there in force because it provided products to make for
our military contractors.


In 1963 I was bouncing around from Cocoa Beach to the Bahamas. Didn't own a TV, and didn't ever have
an address for over a month, so didn't take a newspaper. At that age I wasn't much interested in
Vietnam. I became interested a couple years later, when I got drafted. I suppose I wasn't 'smart'
enough to evade it. Once in the Army, I didn't try the conscientious objector route as I'm pretty
sure you would have done, given your knowledge and all.

In other words, I did as I was told, like the other hundreds of thousands of guys and gals. And
guess what...I'm not ashamed of a thing I did. I'm quite proud of it , actually.

So put that in your pipe and smoke it.