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Originally Posted by 33girl
Wow, when this country overcompensates, we REALLY overcompensate.
There is a happy medium between spitting on the guys coming back from Vietnam and gushing all over a complete stranger in the pasta aisle.
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This may be part of the problem right here. For the most part, the people I see running up to soldiers to say thanks are those who were alive during - and are old enough to remember - the Vietnam War, and the way that returning soldiers were treated. Instead of receiving cheers of support at the airport, they were met with protestors. They were called names and refused service at restaurants. Movies, television, and the news media portrayed them as monsters.
Now maybe people are overcompensating for how the soldiers were treated back then.
But the soldiers of today aren't the ones who fought in Vietnam. Some may have read history books about the subject, but they have no first-hand experience of what it was like to return from war at that time. And now they're being thanked, and they don't know what to do with that.
I wouldn't either.
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