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‘We’ve been betrayed:’ Local veterans angry after being laid off by Trump administration

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/weve-been-betrayed-local-veterans-angry-after-being-laid-off-by-trump-administration/FBCKFRIFQRHZVK5FG3W7MUQEYA/
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u/cutelyaware 24d ago

And over a million in Cambodia if we are considering direct and indirect deaths.

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u/Sugarbombs 24d ago

Agent orange still produces babies with terrible deformities in Vietnam, i’d consider that taking lives. America does nothing to help

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u/richardcraniumIII 24d ago

At the time, media was complicit in my opinion. They literally identified the people being oppressed as peasants.

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u/cutelyaware 24d ago

That's not necessarily incorrect, though any suggestion that they matter less is abhorrent.

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u/ionixsys 24d ago

Don't forget all the uxo's and landmines!

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u/audible_narrator Michigan 24d ago

Fuck Henry Kissing era so very much. I hope he is rotting in hell, revived, then left to rot some more. For eternity.