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16. That is also my understanding.

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #14)

Sat Apr 26, 2014, 02:23 PM

Apr 2014

But I often wonder how Vietnam would be better off than they are now, if we had "won". And how would the US be better off? It was a mistake all the way, imho.

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