so how do you feel about the Vietnam War
well um you know i guess that it's pretty deep feelings uh i just uh went back and rented uh the movie what is it Good Morning Vietnam
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and uh got that uh uh some insight there to to kind of help me put together the feelings i really appreciated the the little uh
yeah i saw that as well
English class where the uh the uh fellow just wouldn't do anything you know the guy's gouging gouging your eyes out what are you going to do you know wait for him to finish me off
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and uh it it was uh good to remember the uh that that kind of Asian philosophy
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that uh
no no i was kind of an in between uh finally drew a high draft number and you
i'm i was much too young i was born in sixty seven so
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um in a way both my well uh both my brothers were um draft age but neither of them wound up going over which i think they were very happy for
well i personally uh you know uh i just went in limbo i had a passport and was ready to go
uh
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or um out of the country or or join special forces either one
yeah
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i mean i i just didn't know so uh
well um so well do you do you feel that it was worth what we did over there or
um yeah just a second
okay
you restrict access cause a lot of times people are trying to cut them out okay
sure now well Mark um what was that again
um do you think i mean do you think our investment the investment in lives and money was worth it
no not not really
i totally agree with that
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um well what what effects do you think it's had in our country
downside um uh well Robert Blythe says we should uh uh
yeah go into the grief that that's there and we're our presidents have always avoided that as a country so it's pretty serious really uh
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a lot of things that aren't being addressed
um-hum well i think i think that you know that's pretty typical of the of the entire entire involvement over in that you know that nothing was really addressed it wasn't it wasn't you know it was never we we announced that we were going to war it was it was such a gradual
and subtle you know the um you know increasement of of force that
yeah
Gulf of Tonkin uh resolution and was it a dolphin or a torpedo things you remember that
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i vaguely vaguely remember we um we had a we had a um spy ship torpedoed or something or something like that
yeah yeah only only it was foggy and President uh President finally President Johnson said well they they weren't really sure whether it was a dolphin or a torpedo
oh well
isn't that something
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so um do you do you do you think that like our um for example like in in this this past war the Persian Gulf war
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that uh that you see it seemed to me that that Bush was going going to extraordinary lengths to um
you know prepare the country for war yeah
okay
hey Mark uh i've got to go um we'll um see you i guess our five minutes are up according to me are they to you
okay
uh i wasn't really keeping count count but i guess that's good-bye
yeah okay bye-bye
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