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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (71172)6/2/2023 5:29:30 PM
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When I was a boy of kindergarten age I lived on the Army post of Ft Leavenworth. I was surrounded by veterans of WWII and Korean combat who were attending Staff & Command college.

On Saturdays the dads would gather behind our housing where we kids liked to play. Being nosey I'd eavesdrop on their conversation and I heard one of them say: "See these little kids? In about 10 years half of them will lie dead on some Asian battlefield."

If you hear this in a movie it won't affect you much, but hearing those words from some Army major who had witnessed it firsthand will make your hair stand up. Especially when you're one of the little kids he's speaking about. I remember it like yesterday.

That major surely had Korea in mind, but ten years later Vietnam is where the fighting was. My father had been sent there early on before most Americans realized that we were in a war. When I registered for the draft six years later the war was still raging.

Anyway I see parallels between how we ended up in open combat in Vietnam and what's occurring in Ukraine. And don't be fooled, there's a lot of American involvement already at the "advisory" level. I suspect there's already been American deaths. It's not the uniformed military that gets us into these fights, it's politicians and think tank experts who have never seen war up close. They are dangerous fools who think this is a game. The best thing for the Ukrainian people would have been a negotiated settlement. Instead they will get a negotiated settlement plus a needless slaughter, instigated by us.
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