The Vietnam war

[eastcoast 4,431]

29 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

Evidently King George was loathe to give up America and Parliament over ruled him.

Theres a disputed saying supposedly from the Russian Czar “ I fear my cousin George has gone mad ! He should have given up London and kept the Americas “ ! 
Maybe not accurate or true, but definitely thought provoking !

Cheers.

The film, the Madness of King George? It was originally titled the Madness of King George III, but the producers feared that Americans would not go and pay to watch it as they had not seen I and II. 

[paul sr 918]

I worked with a lot of  vietnam veterans ,when i lived in the states .The vast majority had PTSD . A lot of them used alcohol or drugs to cope with what they had being through . It was an other war where the rich got richer and working class men fought and died .

[eastcoast 4,431]

I don't know about war. I've never been near one. I have known and know men who have. But the Americans seem to winge about it more than us. 

[greg64 3,003]

1 hour ago, paul sr said:

I worked with a lot of  vietnam veterans ,when i lived in the states .The vast majority had PTSD . A lot of them used alcohol or drugs to cope with what they had being through . It was an other war where the rich got richer and working class men fought and died .

i think 20% of the  soldiers that came back from Vietnam were heroin addicts  

[WILF 49,353]

1 hour ago, paul sr said:

I worked with a lot of  vietnam veterans ,when i lived in the states .The vast majority had PTSD . A lot of them used alcohol or drugs to cope with what they had being through . It was an other war where the rich got richer and working class men fought and died .

There’s a bloke drives round my local town in a Nissan micra with a “Vietnam Veteran” sticker on the car……dudes about 50 and a mess ! lol 

[paul sr 918]

18 hours ago, greg64 said:

i think 20% of the  soldiers that came back from Vietnam were heroin addicts  

For a lot of them there addiction started with morphine . 

[downsouth 8,252]

4 minutes ago, paul sr said:

For a lot of them there addiction started with morphine . 

Id have guessed that it would have started with all the smack from the Golden triangle.

[downsouth 8,252]

1000s of young men killed and maimed because of politicians poking their noses into something that has nothing to do with them.

[greg64 3,003]

45 minutes ago, downsouth said:

Id have guessed that it would have started with all the smack from the Golden triangle.

china white very pure 

[mackem 29,477]

30 minutes ago, greg64 said:

china white very pure 

 

[saluki bouy 785]

On 16/04/2025 at 18:34, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Woodrow Wilson was also from Carlisle , his mam was born there and emigrated , the weatherspoons there is named after him . 

what a legacy 

There’s book think it’s called steel bonnets Stiff think we’ve both mentioned it before on a book thread 

opens up going on about surnames from the debatable lands moving to America pushing the frontier further and further to get away from maybe not rule of laws the right term but freedom and independence from rules and over government I’ve also read somewhere about the mindset of the appalachians being similar to border revievers think that was in outliers book I’ll have to fact check myself on all the above tonight 

[riohog 5,904]

19 hours ago, WILF said:

There’s a bloke drives round my local town in a Nissan micra with a “Vietnam Veteran” sticker on the car……dudes about 50 and a mess ! lol 

he would be older than 50 mate  the war finished in 1975

[riohog 5,904]

On 17/04/2025 at 10:22, tatsblisters said:

Just googled the story behind it sounds like he got what he deserved. That other memorable clip from the veitnam war of that young girl running up the road with all the skin burnt off her back due to a napalm bombing. As the words in the song WAR absolutely good for nothing rings true. 

her name was kim fuch  she survived the horific injuries from being burned   with naparm        ,the yanks fu,,d up jet again and droped a load on a school.i remember the image well of her running          across a bridge with her skin peeling off she survived and became a nurse. 

[saluki bouy 785]

13 minutes ago, saluki bouy said:

There’s book think it’s called steel bonnets Stiff think we’ve both mentioned it before on a book thread 

opens up going on about surnames from the debatable lands moving to America pushing the frontier further and further to get away from maybe not rule of laws the right term but freedom and independence from rules and over government I’ve also read somewhere about the mindset of the appalachians being similar to border revievers think that was in outliers book I’ll have to fact check myself on all the above tonight 

 

[mackem 29,477]

3 minutes ago, riohog said:

her name was kim fuch  she survived the horific injuries from being burned   with naparm        ,the yanks fu,,d up jet again and droped a load on a school.i remember the image well of her running          across a bridge with her skin peeling off she survived and became a nurse. 

Lives in Ontario now rio.