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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
Since others have discussed this topic, I will too.
Host, if I'm correct, you fled to Canada to avoid the draft during the Vietnam era.
Bearing in mind that Kennedy got us into that, and LBJ lied to escalate it, why do you have such an obsession regarding BUSH?
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I've never resided outside the U.S. I refused to cooperate with selective service in the military draft during the Vietnam war.
U.S. military involvement in Vietnam began at least as far back as 1956. Kennedy took office five years later, and emphasized strengthening of special forces, and the coup that the US was involved in.....assassination of the South Vietnamese head of government, took place in 1963, a week before Kennedy died. So.....the war began under Eisenhower, it was signifigantly escalated by Johnson, and then by Nixon.
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http://www.soc.mil/sofinfo/story.shtml
...........Special Forces in Vietnam
Nam Dong, Lang Vei, Dak To, A Shau, Plei Mei -- these were just some of the places Special Forces troops fought and died for during their 14-year stay in South Vietnam.
It was a stay that began in June 1956, when the original 16 members of the 14th Special Forces Operational Detachment entered Vietnam to train a cadre of indigenous Vietnamese Special Forces teams. In that same year, on Oct. 21, the first American soldier died in Vietnam--Capt. Harry G. Cramer Jr., of the 14th SFOD.
Throughout the remainder of the 1950s and early 1960s, the number of Special Forces military advisors in Vietnam increased steadily. Their responsibility was to train South Vietnamese soldiers in the art of counterinsurgency and to mold various native tribes into a credible, anti-communist threat. During the early years, elements from the different Special Forces groups were involved in advising the South Vietnamese...............
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