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2006-05-26 Home Front: WoT

Wall Street Journal: Honor soldiers. Don't pity them.

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Posted by Mike 2006-05-26 07:10|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 " Then, as now, "they saw men and women who did more than they did . . . and they'd compensate by casting those folks in an inferior status."

Yep. That's a real insight.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-05-26 07:35|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-26 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Btw, regarding the Viet Nam war myths accepted as truth since they're the official version of the entertainement industry/msm :

Dropping The Bomb on Vietnam Myths
By: Monica Tomutsa/News Editor
Last week, co-author of Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of its Heroes and its History B.G. Burkett, shed light on wide-spread and completely false misconceptions surrounding the Vietnam War. While trying to raise funds for a Texas Vietnam memorial, he realized that the media's influence and false coverage had altered the memory of Vietnam for the worse.(...)
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See also this :
Vietnam War Timeline Vietnam War Statistics, notably the "Statistics and Myths" part at the end.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-26 08:33|| 2006-05-26 08:33|| Front Page Top

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-26 08:35|| 2006-05-26 08:35|| Front Page Top

#4 The media presents them in whatever light furthers their agenda for the day.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-05-26 13:01|| 2006-05-26 13:01|| Front Page Top

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