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08-11-2016, 02:02 PM | #1 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Aug 2014
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Hi All,
Just found this really great interview on Todd Matthy.com | Formerly Sledgehammer Productions regarding Buzz Dixon's new G.I. Joe novel "the Most Dangerous Man in the World " The interview covers many details about the G.I. Joe Cartoon, his involvement in the show, how he came up with various concepts for the cartoon and his new G.I. Joe Novel. It's a very interesting read and I highly recommend it. Here's a link: https://toddmatthy.com/2016/08/05/in...-in-the-world/ |
08-12-2016, 12:16 AM | #2 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Schenectady, NY USA
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That was a cool interview. I look forward to reading his book.
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08-12-2016, 12:45 AM | #3 |
Hisstank.Com General
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Location: PA
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Is this true? I never heard this before.
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The story of returning military personnel being disrespected after Vietnam is a myth. No one has been able to turn up a single documented case of it happening, not even among newspaper accounts, personal journals, letters, etc. It was always a “friend of a friend” story.
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08-12-2016, 07:04 AM | #4 |
Crimson Guard
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I'm pretty sure there's no documentary evidence of returning vets being spat on or heckled when returning at the airport. But plenty of vets came back to an American they didn't recognize (even after just a year away) due to the growing anti-war protests, which led to some confrontations. It also led to plenty of vets joining the anti-war protest.
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08-12-2016, 08:19 AM | #5 |
Crimson Guard
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I can't believe Dixon said that. He should be old enough to remember that happening. I always liked the guy and had alot of respect for him. What a damned idiot. There are videos of that happening, not to mention all the first hand accounts of it. My uncle went through that crap when he came home from Vietnam, and one of my older cousins got spat on in the 80's when he came home from basic because he was in uniform.
Complete and total bullshit to say that never happened. What an asshole. Lost all respect I had for that man. |
08-12-2016, 10:09 AM | #6 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Charlotte, NC
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My Dad did 3 tours in Vietnam. I lost respect for Dixon. He sounds like an ignorant fool with that statement. Obviously I'm biased, but I don't think my dad and hundreds of other Vets would make it up.
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10-03-2016, 11:02 AM | #7 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: North Hollywood
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Actually, there has been more than one assertion of what Buzz is saying. I've heard it multiple times since the 80s, especially in the last decade, when the whole Chris Kyle/Jesse Ventura kerfuffle came to light...some of what Kyle said happened, at least with Ventura, is proving to be exaggeration.
When the media reported THAT, the whole issue of the returning 'Nam vets came up. The truth is probably somewhat in the middle. What I believe, and what seems to be the case if you look back, is that there were exaggerations on both sides made by both pro-and anti-war contingencies. Most vets didn't experience physical violence or spitting. On the other side, very few vets were the "enraged dangerous monsters" the anti-war people asserted them to be. Men returning from Vietnam definitely WEREN'T given the parades and accolades of men returning from wars gone by, and the WEREN'T given any sort of happy homecoming, to be sure. That is a fact, and those men deserved better. Vets had a hard time getting work, getting any sort of proper care from the VA, and general indifference from a country ready to forget the war, especially after the pull out. Vets have stated that they were called "killers", and "hired killers" and "baby killers" by people when they came home, and I completely believe that. But a 1971 Harris poll reported that something around 90% of vets polled reported a positive homecoming, and I have read more than one assertion by 'Nam vets that many of the war protestors they encountered were actually completely supportive of the soldiers, who they saw as victims of it, rather than agents of it. In fact, many of the vets returning from Vietnam JOINED the anti-war protests I think after 75, it may have gotten worse, and rather than being hate, it was an overall indifference of the government, who should have been taking much better care of the men who had sacrificed so much of themselves, combined with the fears of people told that those same men were unstable. But the assertion that flower-power beaded hippies were spitting in their faces seems to have been mostly a pre- 74 construct of those within to keep the war going because they were making a good deal of cash off of it. There was even a book written about it by Jerry Lembke. Of course, there are people questioning his research. https://www.amazon.com/Spitting-Imag.../dp/0814751474 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / Debunking a spitting image Nobody Spat on American GIs! https://www.amazon.com/Spitting-Imag.../dp/0814751474 Last edited by DianaD; 10-03-2016 at 12:18 PM.. |
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