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VIETNAM'S WAR 40 YEARS LATER.

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    #32
    Christ the Redeemer
    Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭Christ the Redeemer


    shane9689 wrote: »
    every war is an atrocity

    There's a difference between atrocities like this and the Iraq war and wars like WW2.

    Atrocities happened during WW2 but the entire Vietnam "war" was an atrocity carried out by the united states.


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    jmayo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,153 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    Yes believable. In the 70s they found a family in Russia that didn't know about WW2.

    And they also found a Japanese soldier still fighting the war into the 70s, until they convinced him the war was over and Japan was making a fortune seelling stuff to the yanks.
    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    There are also reports of POW still being held in Vietnam I even think one was discover in the last year.

    Nah that was a Chuck Norris film you were watching. ;)
    Deleted User wrote: »
    They had no way of knowing the war was over. If you had to choose between living in a war, that has already killed many family members, or living in the relative safety of a jungle, which would you pick?

    Nobody told them it was over, so they obviously just assumed it was still happening.

    Ehh didn't someone supposedly track them down 20 odd years ago and try and convince them to come out ?
    And besides surely to fook they must have noticed less US planes flyng about.

    Obviously the father fell apart and then just got into a rut which would not allow him reconsider.
    I feel sorry for the son who has lost most of his life and now has to be someone educated and reintegrated into society even though he is in his 40s.


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    #34
    Jonny7
    Registered Users Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    Christ the Redeemer wrote: »
    There's a difference between atrocities like this and the Iraq war and wars like WW2.

    Some scale and context.

    More Russian POWs died in German custody than many of the higher estimates for entire casualties of the Vietnam war.

    More people died at camps you've most likely never heard of like (e.g. Belzec) than combined from both Iraq wars.


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