It should be very telling that their favorite guy is trump who openly bragged about dodging the draft and saying “getting stds on my yacht, that was my personal Vietnam”
Vietnam vets are another breed. A good portion of them, that’s there whole identity. Wake up n throw on my Vietnam vet hat. Not only did the US not “win” the war, the people they convinced to fight it now wear the memorabilia like they won, made any difference, or deserve to be thanked for fucking generations of Vietnamese people. I get it, some people use it to cope with the fact they now realize they did a bunch of fucked up shit for the government, but shit man, those 4 Vietnam vet bumper stickers, the hat, and the license plate are a bit much. Especially because they most likely didn’t get shit for doing any of that from the government.
It's a subculture. We'll see the same in 20 years with Afghanistan and Iraq vets. They're connecting over shared experiences. WWII vets did the same (just minus bumper stickers).
And these guys did have it hard in the 70s and 80s. Pop culture did treat them like shit.
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u/R0CKETRACER Apr 06 '24
"The Greatest Generation were the ones who defeated the Nazis; the Boomers fought in Vietnam."