by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | November 17, 2019

Vietnam was an ugly, pointless war based on a US Government lie called the ‘Gulf of Tonkin Incident’. This undeclared war in Southeast Asia brutally slaughtered and maimed millions of innocent men, women and children, including our young American boys: 58,315 KIA; 153,303 WIA; 1,618 MIA; & 778 POWs. It changed this country forever; enriching only the defense contractors, the MIC and those who financed this war effort. Though many of my fellows in high school had been sent off to Vietnam –only to return in body bags– I was too young to go; but I watched the slaughter and the returning body bags on TV every night from the safety and comfort of my home. The Vietnam War brought us the anti-war movement, psychedelic drugs (aided and promoted by the CIA), eastern religions, free love, increased state domestic power and surveillance, huge debts owed to the central bankers and changed American culture forever.

Later, my college biology teacher told me he had served in Vietnam. He was a fit, small guy with a wily, dry sense of humor, and a pure white shock of hair jetting out of his hairline; and he was a good teacher. He served in the ground infantry and said he enjoyed his stay there so much he re-enlisted three times. I asked him what he learned in Vietnam and he said how to survive. Later when I was running my own business I hired several Vietnam veterans. Most would never speak a word about their time there, but two confided in me. One made me swear that I would never tell his wife he served in Vietnam since he had never told her. I found this to be very strange if not implausible. Another broke down and cried in my office for all the bad things he had done. He had even been ordered to kill US POWs since they represented a threat to the US negotiations. Another Vietnam veteran told me that all their ammo was locked up in a bunker and they couldn’t return fire, until they received approval from headquarters. My father-in-law also served in Vietnam, but never speaks of his time there.

Since WWII, the US has not declared one single war, yet since that time our war efforts have increased exponentially as well as our debt to those who finance these undeclared wars; and if we choose to look over the walled garden in which we live, we will discover that every single one of these wars are based on lies similar to the lie which brought us Vietnam. And so it goes.