[ SECRET POST #161 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #161 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[deidarachan.livejournal.com]

Do you like... Really hate Vietnamese people or something?

[(Anonymous)]

No. You don't have to hate to be a soldier. Or want to have been one. It's the war that interests me the most.

[halevy.livejournal.com]

Is it fighting for your country? I can see the pride in that but... my history teacher, born in the U.S., came here to Canada so he'd never get into a war. One of his old school mates did and his friend was never the same.

[(Anonymous)]

No, don't care about the US. It's not about having pride. It's the Vietnam war. I love it and how entirely fucked up it was on all sides. I want to have been there to see it and be in it, and I'm lol'ing at all the e-mind readers telling me that I don't.

Maybe I'm crazy. So what?

[deidarachan.livejournal.com]

To be fair, it's pretty weird. I mean, there are plenty of history enthusiasts out there who like reading up on wars, but I don't think there are many who actually would want to be involved.

Like, I've researched the Holocaust before, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in it.

[(Anonymous)]

That's why it would be a secret.

[(Anonymous)]

I would like to add LOL to your argument.

"I want to be in the Civil War."
"Do you really hate Americans?"
"I want to be in WWII."
"Do you really hate Germans?"

[deidarachan.livejournal.com]

Just sayin'. If it's not out of patriotism, racial superiority complexes are sometimes a motive.

[(Anonymous)]

Looks like no one but me is crazy enough to want to be there just to have been there and experienced it. :)

[deidarachan.livejournal.com]

Guess so. Personally, I'm just a fan of keeping all my limbs, and not killing anyone and/or being killed, but to be fair, being anti-war in general gives me a bit of a biased opinion. There are people who go off to war, and people who like history, so there's probably some others like you out there.

Experiencing history would be very educational and interesting, but this is one of the cases where I'd rather just read up on it.

[zuppi.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly with you here. I cannot fathom how someone would want to experience anything remotely related to the Vietnam war or similar experiences.

But then, I too am anti-war, anti-killing people and pro-keeping-my-limbs.

[iamadoughnut.livejournal.com]

No, I get it, in a way. I'd never want to be present for the Vietnam War, but I've met more than enough Civil and Revolutionary war re-enactors who'd love the opportunity to get a taste of the real thing, I'm sure. I think people still view Vietnam as an open wound, though, and so there's more disbelief and argument (despite the fact that, well, it isn't that different).

And I myself tend to think I should have been a teenager in the late '40s/early '50s, despite the oppressive McCarthyism of the era and the incredible lack of freedom or rights of expression I would have had as a homosexual. That or the Victorian era, whatever, neither would have been terribly kind. Oh well.