On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:15:19 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Cuban Missle Crisis occured in 1962. I wasn't allowed to join the Navy
>then. I was only 9 years old. Us kids were playing army though.
>
>US started sending troops and bombing in Vietnam in 1965 but had been
>sending in "advisors" earlier.
>
>I was draft age in 1972 but got a high lottery number. If I had gotten a
>draft notice, was going to join the Marines (better trained than the
>Army). Turned out that they didn't draft at all that year and they left
>Vietnam in 1973. And the commies won after all those years.
>
>In hindsight, we should have stayed out of that civil war in the
>beginning and saved many young lives on both sides.

And you wouldn't have had your ass handed to you by a much smaller
enemy.

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