Dittociecheesemeister wrote: ↑17 Nov 2019, 14:45 It didn't change my opinion of the war. I thought that the war was ill-advised and resulted in unnecessary loss of life, and that opinion remains unchanged. What it did is educate me about a conflict about which I knew very few details despite being alive at the time it was taking place. I think that this book stands to educate the public about the Vietnam war, and that is a very positive thing.
Did this book change your views on the Vietnam war?
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Re: Did this book change your views on the Vietnam war?
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These unfortunate souls are indeed "also victims of their system" and unjustly so. With the Vietnam War in particular, I don't think much of it will ever be clear... but it happened, we had representation there, and those veterans are still paying the price from the memories and exposure. Thank you for opening up the important discussion about it.Herbstlicht wrote: ↑13 Nov 2019, 04:14 Wars are messy, and we can consider ourselves lucky if we only read about it in books. I love reading military novels, as it brings me one step closer to understanding wars and people, as history is often biased and only one-sided.
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'were so unfairly treated by the cowards and selfish stay at homes'melzim25 wrote: ↑09 Dec 2019, 16:50 No, Deadly Waters did not change my views regarding the Vietnam conflict. As veteran of that conflict I will sat that the author Randy Miller pretty well described the environment as it was, in country, attitudinally of the Vietnamese and so forth. I do take exception to the portrayal of the enlisted men as not particularly or sophisticated. I did not do any duty aboard the tin cans or cruisers, the surface Navy as it were, I was a submariner and my shipmates on all four duty stations were above the level classwise that Randy portrays the enlisted men. .
The return to civilian life was aptly describe for more than a lot of servicemen though. It is a sad blight on our Country that the men and women that were sacrificing for our Country, right or wrong, were so unfairly treated by the cowards and selfish stay at homes as they were. And our government. that is not the same as our Country, shall bare that shame for ever. Melzim25
By the politicians who sent them to war, you mean?
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