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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Tue Sep 19, 2017, 10:29 AM Sep 2017

Every online comments section regarding Ken Burn's "Vietnam" [View all]

99% of the comments are about how Vietnam affected them personally and/or America at large.

I find virtually NO comments on the environmental devastation we did to that country nor this:

The human costs of the long conflict were harsh for all involved. Not until 1995 did Vietnam release its official estimate of war dead: as many as 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters. The U.S. military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died in the war.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War

Self-centered to the extreme.
When will we learn?

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Every online comments section regarding Ken Burn's "Vietnam" [View all] SHRED Sep 2017 OP

It was also great for the fossil fuel industry. dogman Sep 2017 #1

I've come to believe that is why RWers love war... Wounded Bear Sep 2017 #2

Ever notice that facebook comments are almost always about how I did this or that? The_Casual_Observer Sep 2017 #3

They need to rename it SHRED Sep 2017 #5

No doubt a bunch of old Geritol-suckers whining about Jane Fonda. Aristus Sep 2017 #4

They are proud SHRED Sep 2017 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author jberryhill Sep 2017 #13

People's Park one dead SHRED Sep 2017 #14

Natural tendency zipplewrath Sep 2017 #6

I remember when we illegally invaded Iraq SHRED Sep 2017 #10

I find your anecdotal investigation very compelling. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2017 #8

Something that has amazed me over the years is the fact that none of the Vietnamese or other Arkansas Granny Sep 2017 #9

It is amazing SHRED Sep 2017 #11

Majority Buddhist with a large Catholic minority NT Ex Lurker Sep 2017 #15

I have one dil who is Laotian. Her family is Buddhist and came to this country after the end of Arkansas Granny Sep 2017 #16

There are 10 more episodes. lamp_shade Sep 2017 #12

Online comments section, not the series Brother Buzz Sep 2017 #19

Self-centered? bathroommonkey76 Sep 2017 #17

I think it's natural that reviews of history ressurect personal memories loyalsister Sep 2017 #18