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« on: May 22, 2021, 08:14:01 PM » |
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There was plenty; polls at the time showed most Americans favored the war until 1969-1970, when Vietnamization had already started. The government turned against the war before the people did.
The interesting question here is about the war's memorialization, with it being so demonized in culture (and being the first-ever US war to have never produced a veteran President, with consecutive losers in Gore/Kerry/McCain). This is probably connected to it having been the first war the US could coherently be said to have lost.
But the idea that nobody supported the Vietnam War is a false memory thing. Most people at the time did.
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