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Apr 30, 2012 07:44

Vietnam war vet just left the mental health hospital. He has no place to go, so in a week or two, he is planning to "do something crazy," so they'll send him back, giving him a place to stay and regular meals. Everytime he goes, he is "medicated" for conditions he doesn't actually have. (He spits them out after he leaves the line.)

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phantomwriter05 May 22 2012, 19:05:50 UTC
I wrote a paper on a CIA operation during the Vietnam War ... It was called the "Phoenix Program" it was an infiltration and assassination operation to destroy the Vietcong inside out (it worked eventually) and I read the congressional hearings during the time period in which Congress was asking why would we ever have a program like this ( ... )

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fig_aruna May 24 2012, 00:52:59 UTC
I can't bring myself to really respond to this right now, but I think this is the dealbreaker....

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phantomwriter05 May 24 2012, 01:11:53 UTC
I understand that you don't like to hear that ... I don't take pleasure in telling people that, I don't like remembering that. I still have nightmares about those pictures I looked over.

But that's the hard truth.

If me telling you what happened on the ground what really happened on the ground, not the BS professors feed everyone, if that's a deal breaker, I'm sorry.

But I do not like people saying things like that, because to me it sounds like those poor children were butchered rightiously.

If this is the end, than good bye figgs.

I've always cared about your well being. But I don't lie.

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fig_aruna May 24 2012, 03:45:20 UTC
It is the end, but I have this to say. You've written a paper, yes, but so have I, but 100x more meaningful than that is that I come from a war refugee family who had people fighting on both sides. I didn't just read about the atrocities. I was told directly from survivors who got shot, bombed, eviscerated, impaled, raped, burned alive, as well as how, where, and when. I wish I didn't, but I know ALL the details ( ... )

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