Synchronicity

The Writer’s Almanac

On this day in 1973, the last American combat troops left Vietnam, ending the direct involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War. Several thousand civilian Defense Department employees stayed on in Vietnam after the withdrawal of troops. The last of these Americans were airlifted out of the country when Saigon fell to the Communists on April 30, 1975.
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This day in 1865 marked the beginning of the Appomattox Campaign, the final campaign of the Civil War.
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As we look back to the end of US military involvement in Vietnam, remember that our “defeat” (our failure to finish destroying Vietnam) has been a powerful motivator for the Radical Right for over 30 years. To this day, they and their children and their grandchildren despise the dirty hippies and peaceniks they blame — all those disloyal Liberals who see more value in peace than perpetual war.

I wonder how many of those same people still curse the Union almost 140 years after the Civil War. Hatred has 9 lives. mjh

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