Rambo's truth
A very popular movie about a Vietnam veteran has been more about the violence than the real message it was trying to convey. Rambo a movie about John Rambo coming back to america after the war searching for his fellow soldiers in his platoon. He finds out that they have all died, he is then arrested by a cop for nothing worthy. After escaping jail he is on the run and it turns into a huge search to find and kill him. At the end of the movie he was confronted by his former general before the final shoot out. After a couple words from his general Rambo starts to unfold his real emotion, he gets very emotional when he talks about coming home. When he returned home protesters were against him, he said that he was yelled at be named "baby killer" and was spit on. This makes me sick that this is what veterans went through coming back.
When you think of hippies you'll probably think about war protesters to end war. At the end of the Vietnam war when all the soldiers came back the protesters started to protest the soldiers. Soldiers not welcomed home and being yelled at, you could think that this is why there were 3x as many suicides of soldiers after the war than there were soldiers dying in Vietnam. It makes me sick to my stomach that these hippies ignoring the fact that these men put themselves into harms way to protect innocent lives wanted these people to die. Not like this war was about money but yet had so much more protesting than any other war in US history. These vets ended up becoming drug addicts or alcoholics.
It is sickening to know that people were protesting the soldiers. It takes a lot of courage to put your life on the line, especially if everybody is yelling at you for it.
ReplyDeleteIt is so sad that even people in the country that the veterans fought for spoke out against them. Also many of the veterans may have been drafted and had no say in the matter of going to war. The country should be accepting them as heroes.
ReplyDeleteThough I agree that hippies shouldn't be protesting AFTER the war, I don't think its right to place so much of the blame on them for veterans' suicides. I support the idea of hippies protesting the war in general and before soldiers go, but also think its not respectful or right for them to be doing that to soldiers after they've come home. One could argue that the reason for 3x the number of suicided post-war is because of PTSD, not due to the hippy protests.
ReplyDeleteWhile I do not support anyone protesting soldiers returning from a war I am also left unconvinced that "hippies suck." The shift from soldier from civilian is enormous, and soldiers would have enough trouble adjusting without the rather common case of PTSD. I also must warn, you are leaning very heavily on one side. What I mean by that is you are shifting nearly all the blame for the suicide rates onto the hippies, while also piling them all into one group, not taking into account that not everyone who protested the war protested the soldiers, not every hippie hated the vets. And I'm afraid to say, looking some into this, I found several sources, some of whom even directly referenced Rambo, claiming that the spitting and screaming was a myth, or at least was never reported at the time, despite the pro-war media. I am not going to claim that my 5 minutes of research means that everything you said is a lie or something pretentious like that, I would merely like to mention a different side of the story that may or may not be accurate.
ReplyDeleteI understand why the hippies protested during the war, but I dont really understand the point of protesting after the fact. It's not like they could alter a war that had already happened or bring people back that had died. I completely agree that those hippies were to blame for the self-inflicted deaths of the veterans after the war.
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