by america espinosa https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7 en-us 2015-03-04 20:39:14 UTC 2024-11-17 10:13:29 UTC hello@padlet.com What do yourecall about the time when the Vietnam War started? How old were you? What doyou remember about what was going on in the country and your community when youwere growing up during the 1950s and 1960s? americajanet13 https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129100 2015-03-04 20:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129100 Pre War americajanet13 https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129171 2015-03-04 20:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129171 During the war americajanet13 https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129194 2015-03-04 20:40:23 UTC https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129194 Post war americajanet13 https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129238 2015-03-04 20:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129238 americajanet13 https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129348 2015-03-04 20:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129348 americajanet13 https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129485 2015-03-04 20:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129485 americajanet13 https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129590 2015-03-04 20:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52129590 I got drafted on November 22,1966. I had been working for a book distributor and as a stock boy in some stores coming out of high school. A lot of dudes were trying to do things to get deferments. One of my brothers put some kind of liquid in his eye and said he had an eye problem at the physical. He never went. I didn't try anything. I knew when I got drafted I was going to Vietnam, no matter what I did. I knew because of the vision I had when I was twelve. americajanet13 https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52736285 2015-03-10 03:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52736285 In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America. And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom, which those misfits supposedly abuse, is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart.... americajanet13 https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52736580 2015-03-10 03:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52736580 Each day to facilitate the process by which the United States washes her hands of Vietnam someone has to give up his life so that the United States doen'st have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we can't say they we have made a mistake. Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, "the first President to lose a war." We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? But we are trying to do that, and we are doing it with thousands of rationalizations, and if you read carefully the President's last speech to the people of this country, you can see that he says and says clearly: americajanet13 https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52736631 2015-03-10 03:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52736631 VIDEO americajanet13 https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52736679 2015-03-10 03:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/americajanet13/y5ib52lemso7/wish/52736679