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Stella’s pop's avatar

Kinda like…we need to dismantle democracy to save democracy?

We need to napalm the village to save the village?

I know that combined with your anecdote it’s only three data points, but I’m detecting a theme here.

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J. L. Ward III's avatar

Evil Themes at that ... And just as was done in the Viet Nam war - spray about 90million gallons of Agent Orange defoliant on the jungle so the 'enemy' can't hide under the stripped twigs and branches of folliage. WTF. We know how that worked out. And I got to watch the whole shittery, napalm and all, off the coast of Nam onboard ship.

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Kathy Christian's avatar

I worked in pathology as a secretary at the time, and I can tell you about the high rate of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that occurred in the Vietnam vet population, among other things

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