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History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.

During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was... if we did not prevent Vietnam from becoming Communist, one by one those countries over there would turn Commie and soon Commies would take over the Entire World and We Would be fighting them at Our Border With Mexico... Communism Would threaten the American Way of Life Right Here at Home!

Dominos was a Family Game popular before the invention of Computers and Video Games... Since "Everyone" Knew what they were... the US Government Named our Foreign Policy for that Game... Because It Made the Policy Easy to Understand...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominoes

President Eisenhower and Kennedy sent advisors to help the South Vietnamese soldiers fight the North Vietnamese soldiers.

VIDEOS: Domino Theory: Cold War Misconception About Communism's Spread...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAXLuJJuCN8

The Domino Theory, Containment and the Truman Doctrine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEAzmh2nfs

Effects of Policies During the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, USH21...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo_qCGNd2tE

Everyone Says Trump Was The Worst President Ever... However...

George Bush The Son was an American Idiot TOO... 9/11 Happened on His Watch... and Then He Started TWO Insane Wars Killing Thousands of American Soldiers... and the USA PATRIOT ACT: Pure Evil... and Wrote a $700 Billion Check to Wall Street when They Failed in 2008... Free Money that the The US Government Created From Nowhere... Like a Magician Pulling a Rabbit out of a Hat...

Richard Nixon allowed the Vietnam War to Continue for FOUR MORE YEARS. He Campaigned on Ending the War in 1968 but Failed to Surrender until 1973... Killing Thousands of American Soldiers...

Ronald Reagan Sold Weapons to Terrorists... He Helped Saddam Hussein become President of Iraq... Blew up Nicaragua... and Started the Disastrous "War On Drugs" which has filled American Prisons with Millions of Black and Brown Men but did not actually reduce drug use...

Yes, It's True that Republicans are the Worst Presidents Ever... but don't forget Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld... They did Evil for Decades...

and then on Facebook Jake Pein Said: It’s so wild that it seems like no one remembers how absolutely awful Bush Jr’s presidency was. I agree Trump has been a terrible president but Bush was the one of, if not the worst in the past 100 years. Savage attacks on civil liberties with the patriot act, the creation of the department of homeland security and massive expansion of government surveillance on everyone. Started multiple new wars we’re still in, the endless war on terror and drone bombings, and started an international toruture regime. Continued deregulating Wall Street and the financial sector and oversaw the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression where the entire housing market was destroyed and millions lost their homes and jobs. Probably the time of the most white collar crime in history. No one was held accountable. It is really sickening that these former bush administration criminals are running the Lincoln project and all the liberals are eating it up and rehabilitating bush as a likable old goof. Just remember what it was like in 2008 when the economy was in the shitter and bush had like 20% approval. Trump has been awful and things are shitty now but this isn’t unprecedented. This is just more of the same insanity from the Republican Party.

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It's the 50th Anniversary of Richard Nixon's Failed War on Drugs. June 17th, 2021... Doing the Same Thing Again and Again and Again While Expecting Different Results IS INSANE!

"Everybody" says that the Failed War on Drugs Has Caused Massive Incarceration of Black and Brown Men... While that is True... Is that a Bad Thing? YES, It's a Bad Thing.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm

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Isn't the Failed War on Drugs Just a "Sneaky" Way to Perform Genocide? While those Men are Locked Up, They Certainly are NOT Fathering Children... Making Entire Generations of Americans Whiter... Because Women Select a Sperm Donor from the UN-Incarcerated Population... A KKK Dream Come True...

Marijuana has become Legal in Many States... Over Half!

Psychedelic Plants have become Decriminalized in Many Towns... So... Nixon's Attack on Hippies Failed... HA HA... LOSER...

Now I Read in the Newspaper that Black and Brown Men are Dying from Fentanyl Overdoses... Huh... Isn't THAT Convenient?

An Absolutely Certain Way to Prevent Their Genes from Showing Up in Future Generations...

Here's a Classic Sermon on this Subject:

June 17, 2021, will mark 50 years since U.S. President Richard Nixon declared drugs to be “public enemy number one,” launching a national campaign to criminalize drug use. War on drugs policies have led to mass incarceration, civil liberties abuses, over-policing and mistreatment of people of color, and human rights violations in the United States and around the world. Meanwhile, nearly 500,000 people died in the United States alone from opioid overdose in from 1999 to 2019, with death rates still accelerating steadily.

To mark this milestone, faith leaders, as part of Open Society grantee Faith in Harm Reduction’s sermon series, will memorialize the victims of the war on drugs and affirm that people who use drugs are deserving of life, dignity, and rights.

IS THAT TRUE? ARE THEY VICTIMS?https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/events/sermon-series-50th-anniversary-of-the-war-on-drugs

It's Amazing that Within a Week of the Thousands of Haiti Refugees (Black People) were Spotted Living Under a Bridge in Texas... They Were Airlifted Right Back Where They Came From...

That Same Week the Federal Government Allowed Thousands of Refugees from Afghanistan to Immigrate to The Good Old USA...

Obviously Racist...

ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “WAR ON DRUGS,” POLL SHOWS MAJORITY OF VOTERS SUPPORT ENDING CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR DRUG POSSESSION, THINK DRUG WAR IS A FAILURE... https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/50th-anniversary-war-drugs-poll-shows-majority-voters-support-ending-criminal

I Heard It Said That LSD Was Invented at the Same Time as the Atom Bomb... In Order to Balance the Universe...

"War, Ungh, What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing... say it Again... Headline: After 50 Years Of The War On Drugs, 'What Good Is It Doing For Us?' https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1006495476/after-50-years-of-the-war-on-drugs-what-good-is-it-doing-for-us

America has spent over a trillion dollars fighting Richard Nixon's Failed war on drugs. 50 years later, drug use in the U.S. is climbing again. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/the-us-has-spent-over-a-trillion-dollars-fighting-war-on-drugs.html

In 1973 We Won The Vietnam War. Millions of Patriots Protested in the Streets and the US Government Eventually Surrendered. Nixon Decided that Murdering Random People for No Reason Was Not That Brilliant an Idea... and so he stopped...

and NOW... The History of the Vietnam War is Not Taught in School Because... It's "Too Controversial" - HOWEVER... Students may use the Internet to Learn American History...

In Fact! a Great Idea would be to write a Term Paper on the Subject and Not Only LEARN HISTORY but also TEACH HISTORY... That way we will not Make the Same Mistake Again!

In 1973 the US Military Stopped Drafting People to Fight Pointless Wars... I Graduated from High School in 1972 and I was Forced to Register for the Draft But WAS NOT CALLED TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY... and Since Then Americans Have Never Been Drafted... an Idiotic Idea That Failed... NOW They Depend on Horrible Economic Conditions to get People to VOLUNTEER as the Military is the Employer of Last Resort...

A Brief History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world.

We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and fallout shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs. During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "the Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was that one by one those countries over there would turn Commie and soon they would take over Mexico and threaten the American Way of Life. President Eisenhower and Kennedy sent advisors to help the South Vietnamese soldiers fight the North Vietnamese soldiers. Then President Johnson sent even More American Soldiers to fight the Viet Cong. Then President Nixon continued the War for another 5 years before eventually he decided to allow the South Vietnamese to fight their own war and we left. Quickly the South lost and thousands of Boat People fled South Vietnam because they thought they would be killed. As it turned out, The Domino Principle was false. Communism did not take over the world. The entire war was a waste of lives and money.

The main reason we ended the Vietnam War was the huge protest movement against the war. Lead by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin of the Yippies, The Students for a Democratic Society and The Weatherman staged immense protest marches expressing the desire of the American People to end the war. Eventually the US government got the message.

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http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The Country, Not Even Once. Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.

One time there was a Need to Defend the Country and The Military Failed Completely. Civilians took down the Airplane in Pennsylvania on 9/11/2001.

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Often The USA chooses sides in Someone Else's Civil War, Gets Real Excited about Fighting Communism (or whatEVER) and then We Get Bored, Retreat, Lose and the Total Effect is ZERO. For Example: Vietnam. After 10 years of fighting, we lost and then The Surrounding Countries DID NOT Fall like Dominos... Believe it or not, There was a "Domino Theory" proposed by Vice President Richard Nixon that Stated that, If we lost in Vietnam, the neighboring Countries would become Communist and then the Entire World would GO Commie and we will have Reds Ruling Mexico! And Attacking the USA! I'm not making this up... There were people that really believed this theory... and were willing to send other people's children to die because they were Fighting Communism. Danger Danger! If we don't beat the Reds in Vietnam they will come right up to our border... ABSURD! For those of you that have never heard of Dominos, it's a game with numbered tiles that you could stack in rows so that if you pushed one over, it would hit the next and that one would hit the next... and on and on and on... and they would all fall down. This was popular before Video Games.

However, Hughes Aircraft, Dow Chemical and other Defense Contractors MADE A FORTUNE... People that sell Bandages, need Bleeding Soldiers to use them up... and then they make a Sale Restocking the Military. Helicopters, Agent Orange, Napalm, Boots, Boats and Food were all wonderful businesses to be in... Soldier Have to Eat... We can sell more MRE if there is an active war than during peacetime... To Quote Country Joe McDonald: "Come on Wall Street Don't Move Slow, Why Man this War's a Go-Go. There is Plenty Good Money to be Made, Supplying the Army with the Tools of the Trade! Just hope and Pray when they Drop the Bomb, They drop it on the Viet Cong..." Defense Contractors kept the war going for a long as possible. Nixon's Campaign Promise was to End the War but he kept it going an extra FOUR Years. If you think about it, We could have Won that War in ONE DAY. A Hydrogen Bomb on Hanoi would have Ended The War. Totally. We knew HOW to WIN since we we Dropped Atomic Bombs on Japan. BUT, we selected to Lose.

One real effect of that war was: we got a LOT of immigrants. Vietnamese Boat People and Hmong... They came here by the Thousands... and then the Country of Vietnam became a Capitalist Manufacturing Country... Go Figure! They did not like being Commie after all. In general, the refugees were nice people and no one can imagine WHY we would go to war with them...

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https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/great-book-americas-bogus-wars-since.html

Berkeley History Mural on Amoeba Music Store Telegraph Ave - People's Park, Free Speech Movement, Anti-War Riots - PLUS! Everything I Remember about Visiting Berkeley... Gregory Vanderlaan

Berkeley History Mural on Amoeba Music Store Telegraph Ave

Berkeley History Mural on Amoeba Music Store Telegraph Ave

Amoeba Music was a famous record store... Used Records, Obscure Bands, Licorice Pizzas that you just couldn't find anywhere... Also on Telegraph Ave is Rasputin Music...

I remember Going to Anti Vietnam War Protest Marches... Including a Candle Light Parade Down Main Street Los Gatos With My Parents... I'm Glad that They Raised Me to Be in Favor of Good and Opposed to Evil... READ MORE:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/i-remember-going-to-anti-vietnam-war.html

I Protested Against the War in Vietnam... If MORE People had Protested Earlier, Many American Soldiers Would be Alive Today... LEARN FROM HISTORY

and I protested against Johnson, Nixon and BOTH of the Bushes... Trump did not Killed Masses of Americans IN WAR... Just Destroyed the Environment... Wrecked the Economy... and Appointed an Evil Supreme Court Justice... those things kill slowly over decades. [Rereading this post a couple of years later we have had 402,000 Dead Americans from Trump's Coronavirus - SO FAR - 1/21/2021]

In response to a Facebook Post That Said:

"I was taught to support the president of the U.S. no matter what. I’ve been stuck with some crappy ones and some good ones but I would never protest them or spew hatred."

I Said: "Actually, Protesting Ended the Vietnam War, Ended the Draft and Caused Peace for 15 Years... So, March in the Streets! IT WORKS!" READ MORE:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/11/i-protested-against-war-in-vietnam-and.html

The Reason I Teach American History on the Internet Is... I hope to AWAKEN People. For Decades I Have expressed My Opinion in Public and the Majority of People Said "You're Wrong, Greg!" and then Ten Years Later the Majority CHANGED THEIR MINDS and They Say "You're Right, Greg!" I Hope to Speed Up the Process of Global Awakening... READ MORE:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-reason-i-teach-american-history-on.html

Remember: REFUSE TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE US MILITARY. Why Die For Corporate Profit? I Interviewed Hundreds of Veterans and They ALL Said It Was A Mistake...

I worked at the Welfare Office in Humboldt County, California and Talked to Thousands of Homeless People applying for Food Stamps, Medi-Cal and General Relief...

I Met Many HOMELESS VETERANS...

It Was Really Eye Opening To Hear Their Tragic Stories...

However... They All Agreed that The US Military Was a Bad Career Choice... PTSD is Very Real and Very Difficult to Help...

For One Thing, Many PTSD Soldiers Refuse any Help

FROM THE MILITARY... Too Many Lies Have Made Veterans Very Suspicious of Anything Told to Them By The Military Industrial Complex... Totally Justified Paranoia...

READ MORE:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/01/remember-refuse-to-volunteer-for-us.html

It Seems Unbelievable Now BUT... There Were People That Thought The Vietnam War was a Great Idea.

REALLY... I'm Not Making This UP!

They Were Like, TOTALLY AFRAID of COMMIES! It seems Ridiculous Now but... In Fact... The CIA's MKULTRA Brainwashing Experiments Were Successful... Millions of Americans "Drank The Kool Aid" and DID WHAT THEY WERE TOLD TO DO!

Chart of US Military Deaths DOD Source - WE WOKE UP AND STOPPED DYING FOR CORPORATE PROFIT - MEME - gvan42

Chart of US Military Deaths - Source: DOD -
WE WOKE UP AND STOPPED DYING
FOR CORPORATE PROFIT

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https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/it-seems-unbelievable-now-but-there.html

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I remember Going to Anti Vietnam War Protest Marches... Including a Candle Light Parade Down Main Street Los Gatos With My Parents... I'm Glad that They Raised Me to Be in Favor of Good and Opposed to Evil...

And then My Facebook Group Commented!

MWWW: My family was there, too!

DS: I remember going to the candlelight parade

CC: I remember watching the coffins coming off of the military planes each night...so incredibly sad

NM: I was there too; what year was the candlelight event?

SCB: We went every Christmas Eve, walked, held candles and sang songs. I was young and actually thought it was a part of celebrating Christmas. One Christmas Eve I asked my mom where my candle was that I would be holding and she told me the war was over. I didn’t really understand they were related. I remember being sad that we weren’t going to march anymore as it was one of my favorite parts of Christmas. (I obviously did not understand) My dad was the head of the Peace Center in Los Gatos. I still remember looking at a dove holding an olive branch necklace there that I had wanted. At 20 years old I had that symbol tattooed on me. The only tat I have and I have never regretted it. I’m glad to see that others also remember this.

JM: I was born and raised in Los Gatos, and knew nothing of these candlelight vigils. I enlisted in March 1965, before I had heard of Vietnam. A friend and I tried to hitchhike to Selma, to join Martin Luther King in his march from Selma to Montgomery for Negro voting rights. We got busted as runaways, and my dad suggested if I really wanted to help our country, maybe I should consider joining the military.
After Vietnam, it may seem strange that someone working for Civil Rights would join the military, but my grandfather fought in WWI and WWII and my dad was a Navy pilot in WWII and the Korean War. Eisenhower and JFK had used US troops to desegregate the South. I was very gung-ho.
I breezed through Basic Training, top 5% of Advanced Electronics training, volunteered for Jump School - and right about then, LBJ send the first US combat troops to Vietnam. I got my paratrooper wings and volunteered for helicopter pilot school. I was going all the way.
But, then I started talking to Special Forces troops who had come back from Vietnam, bragging about kicking prisoners out of helicopters at 1,500' to get other prisoners to talk, flying over villages shooting everything that moves (adding to the "Body Count"), and calling our supposed allies "Gooks".
I started researching what we were doing there in the first place and found that we were supporting a corrupt Catholic government in a Buddhist land. The monks who set themselves on fire, who I thought were protesting the godless Commies, were actually protesting the oppressive US backed South Vietnamese government. The Vietnamese people fought for their independence from the Chinese, the Japanese, and the French, and now the US, who took over from the French, after they refused to give up their colonies after WWII.
By March 1966 I had determined that the war had shattered my ideals of an honorable military, and I could not participate in it. To make a very long story short, at my court martial I quoted from the Nuremberg Trials that soldiers had a right and duty to oppose a war they felt to be illegal and immoral. But, at the time, there were no regulations for someone who enlisted to declare themselves to be a Conscientious Objector.
After a total of one and a half years of honorable duty, two years AWOL, and a year in jail, I was released in September 1969.
In 1974 I received a Presidential Pardon as acknowledgement of my sincere opposition to the war.
I don't know what years those vigils were, but I'm glad to hear about them. I was estranged from my parents and almost all my friends - I was just too early being against the war. In the end, most friends and family recognized I was on the right side of history. I finally got out in September 1969, just as many were still fighting against the war or dying for it. At the start of the Iraq War, I joined Veterans for Peace, and helped to organize Arlington West Memorials, spoke at colleges, and rallies. Since Vietnam too many wars for oil and politics - too many deaths, grievous injuries, and wasted trillions, for nothing.

AB: Jon, your family and friends should be very proud of how you have conducted yourself throughout your adult life. If they don't, it's on them...NOT you! Great job.

JL: Gregory, did you also spit on our soldiers too?

KK: that wasn't protesting....we carried signs and marched and sang and held anti war concerts and wrote letters to the govt!

KK: what you are referring to was assault...not protesting~

KK: we carried flowers and solicited PEACE!....cue: Are You Going to San Francisco~...feel free to sing along~

JM: The spitting legend was BS - there's a book called Spitting Image, that details when the story first started circulating - well after the war. He also details all the versions of the story. I walked down Telegraph Ave in Berkeley in March 1966, in my full paratrooper dress uniform - got some strange looks, but no disrespect.
The most common form of the story was that a soldier arrived from Vietnam, landing in SFO, and while walking down the terminal a young hippie chick comes up to him and spits in his face, (there are a couple of version of what she said), and said, "You're a baby killer".
It never happened. The anti-war movement was for peace, not confrontation, mostly following MLK and Gandhi's non-violence, except for small radical groups, that gave the real peace movement a bad name.

JL: If you were in the service you would sing a different song. No problem with MLK, was Gandhi a U.S. citizen?

LM: Jon Monday I disagree. I was spit on at the bus station in San Francisco on my return from Vietnam. After arriving in San Jose, taking a cab home, when the can driver founded out I just got home from Nam, he pulled over and threw me out of his cab. You…See More

GT: Funny how it was ok to protest back then..but not now

SL: Cook It was OK to protest back then - pretty much everybody was against the war. It was not OK to harass the troops. They were subject to the draft and had limited choices (prison or leaving the country) other than serving. The lack of support for them was horrible.

KK: me too!

ABG: I assume that it is the protest against stay-at-home and related guidelines to which you refer. If so, you are clearly comparing apples to dog shit (oranges are WAY too similar). On the one hand, people were protesting a long term conflict (it w…See More

AB: In case its not obvious, you hit what is probably my largest peeve. I'm even more amazed that since you're only a year younger than me, you should have been affected by the draft as well. I had 4 years of my life disrupted that I could never get back. And, I was lucky that after being drafted, I was able to get into a job that kept me in the States during my service. To this day, I am especially sensitive to how poorly people in the service were treated before, during and after Vietnam. NEVER has there been a time in our history where the people who served during those years have been disrespected and shit on like Vietnam era veterans. End of rant.

JM: Beg to differ, the peace movement embraced Veterans and provided services for homeless and drug addition.Counseled people facing the draft how to get out, and counseled soldiers how to get out as a CO. Right through the late 60s, 70s, all the way to the Iraq and Afghanistan war, the peace movement has supported active duty and veterans with love and recognition. Veteran For Peace is one such group. Those who ignored the returning troops were not the people who protested against the war.

AB: I think you misunderstood what I said. Where did you think I was accusing war protesters of treating veterans badly? Granted it's been almost 50 years ago but I do have some memories of people in uniform being harassed as war mongers and baby killers during some protests. Any group is going to have at least a few "bad eggs" but they were a small minority. In any case, they aren't the ones about whom I was referring.

MB: Do you remember the sit-ins that we had on the front lawn when we refused to go to classes?

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I Realize that it is Difficult to Believe Now BUT... There Were People That Actually Thought The Vietnam War Was a Great Idea! REALLY! I'm NOT Making this UP.

During the Late 1960s The Majority of Americans BELIEVED the Government and Supported the War... OBEY! Said Lyndon Johnson and The Sheeple Obeyed... Sir, Yes Sir! Then Years Later THEY WOKE THE F*CK UP! Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding... REALITY CALLING! As a Matter of Fact, in 1968, Richard Nixon Campaigned Promising to End the War... With Honor... and then he Kept the war going until 1973... Classic "Say One Thing and Do the Opposite."

I Grasp the Concept. DOW Chemical was Making a Fortune Selling Napalm and Agent Orange. Hughes Aircraft was Making a Fortune Selling Helicopters... and the List Goes On and On and On... Corporations selling Bandages to the Military need wounded soldiers to increase sales... Corporations Selling Meals Ready To Eat and BOOTS and Guns and Bullets and Jet Airplanes... Our Own FMC sold Machine Guns that shot Winged Needles and the World Famous Bradly Fighting Vehicle... It's all part of the Strategy of BLOW UP RANDOM COUNTRIES FOR CORPORATE PROFIT!

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SNCC Benefit Speech at My Parent's Home in Los Gatos, CA - In the Sixties, They Raised Funds to Pay for Freedom Riders in the South. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/03/sncc-benefit-speech-at-my-parents-home.html

I Remember That We Had a Black Man Talk. My Folks PACKED The House With People and Took Donations.

In General, The Civil Rights Movement was Successful. President Lyndon Johnson Signed Laws That Allowed Black People to Vote and Live in White Neighborhoods. My Parents Helped!

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/johnson-signs-civil-rights-act

Years Later I Bought a Condo in a Black Neighborhood near Washington DC. There was a DEEP DISCOUNT if You Chose a Black Neighborhood. The Same Condo in Virginia cost $39,000 but in Beautiful Oxon Hill, Maryland the Price was $26,000. It Turns Out That the Peter, Paul and Mary Lyric is Accurate. "They Say that Property Values Will Go Right Down if The Family Next Door is Blue." --- I Selected the Discount. Because I Don't Care What Color My Neighbors Are. at Least I'm Not Going to PAY EXTRA For White Neighbors...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SywxNX6u_s

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History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

Everyone Says Trump Was The Worst President Ever... However...

It's the 50th Anniversary of Richard Nixon's Failed War on Drugs. June 17th, 2021... Doing the Same Thing Again and Again and Again While Expecting Different Results IS INSANE!

In 1973 We Won The Vietnam War. Millions of Patriots Protested in the Streets and the US Government Eventually Surrendered. Nixon Decided that Murdering Random People for No Reason Was Not That Brilliant an Idea... and so he stopped...

A Brief History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world.

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The Country, Not Even Once. Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.

Berkeley History Mural on Amoeba Music Store Telegraph Ave - People's Park, Free Speech Movement, Anti-War Riots - PLUS! Everything I Remember about Visiting Berkeley... Gregory Vanderlaan

I remember Going to Anti Vietnam War Protest Marches... Including a Candle Light Parade Down Main Street Los Gatos With My Parents... I'm Glad that They Raised Me to Be in Favor of Good and Opposed to Evil... READ MORE:

I Protested Against the War in Vietnam... If MORE People had Protested Earlier, Many American Soldiers Would be Alive Today... LEARN FROM HISTORY

Remember: REFUSE TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE US MILITARY. Why Die For Corporate Profit? I Interviewed Hundreds of Veterans and They ALL Said It Was A Mistake...

It Seems Unbelievable Now BUT... There Were People That Thought The Vietnam War was a Great Idea.

REALLY... I'm Not Making This UP!

I remember Going to Anti Vietnam War Protest Marches... Including a Candle Light Parade Down Main Street Los Gatos With My Parents... I'm Glad that They Raised Me to Be in Favor of Good and Opposed to Evil...

SNCC Benefit Speech at My Parent's Home in Los Gatos, CA - In the Sixties, They Raised Funds to Pay for Freedom Riders in the South. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/03/sncc-benefit-speech-at-my-parents-home.html

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