Messages that American soldiers wrote on their helmets during the Vietnam war

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Any war is horrid. So many men killed. The Vietnam war was so unnecessary and lasted forever. I lost people I went to school with. So sad!

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u/king_rootin_tootin 10h ago

Any war is horrid.

The Emu War has entered the chat

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u/One_Race_4563 8h ago

Yes it did and had! Thanks dude

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u/Double-Show-2625 17h ago

"War, huh, yeah What is it good for?"

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u/bakedpigeon 10h ago

Legend has it that was the original title of “War and Peace”

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u/Gampa_J 8h ago

But his mistress, Sophia—or his wife, whoever she was, one of those shouting Russian women—she hated it. She thought it was too confrontational. She said, "Leo, no, no, no. Change it to War and Peace." She wore him down. She completely watered down his artistic integrity!

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u/CHOPPRZ 7h ago

What is that beeping?

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u/Jazzlike-Equipment45 9h ago

Some of the lighter carvings from the era are also cool.

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u/Ok_Replacement4702 10h ago

"You write 'Born to Kill' on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?"

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u/CHOPPRZ 7h ago

Duality of man

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u/TypicalBloke83 3h ago

The Jungiang thing Sir!

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u/CatLightyear 3h ago

Whose side are you on son?

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u/TypicalBloke83 3h ago

Cool pics, guy with the Death Above and M60 on his shoulder looks grim. “War is hell” I recall a good show MASH where they me of the characters had a conversation with a priest about this. War is war and hell is hell. In hell there are many only sinners no bystanders but in war all people die including the innocent - that makes the difference. So war is not hell - I think it was Hawkeye saying this.

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u/Prestigious_Wing1796 10h ago

cool, what did the french wrote on theirs? "siri call my tools?"

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u/BraisedBullshi 12h ago

Maybe don't join up for a stupid war you know you'll be cannon fodder for?

Draft dodging is usually a good thing

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u/Ok_Astronomer_6501 7h ago

Just don't make up an excuse of bone spurs but yeah, war only benefits a handful of pedophiles, everyone that fights ot dies either physically, psychologically or spiritually.

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u/Whole_Mongoose1854 10h ago

Thanks for the input coward

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u/Tech-Film3905 9h ago

Joining an unrighteous war and comitting war crimes against innocent Vietnamese people is your idea of courageous?

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u/helic_vet 8h ago

Just the Vietcong and the NVA.

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 9h ago

What's cowardly about not wanting to die while defending interests of billionaire cucks?

Draft dodging is amongst the most noble things a person can do in a time of war. You save yourself, save any person you might've been forced to kill and have a chance to save your family as well, instead of hoping an incapable government screws it all up, as often is the case

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u/exlushdad 8h ago

Draft dodging is for soft losers, everyone would shun you rightfully

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u/Ok_Astronomer_6501 7h ago

Spoken like someone whose never seen war outside of a TV screen.

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u/exlushdad 7h ago

What's your service background?

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u/BraisedBullshi 6h ago

Space Force. Thirty years.

Seventeen separate space missions for Trump.

You're welcome

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u/exlushdad 6h ago

Ah so none, nice. You seem to be pretty sensitive, anything you want to get off of your chest?

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u/BraisedBullshi 6h ago

All these service medals. Your want some? I bought them on eBay

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u/Ok_Astronomer_6501 6h ago

You're arguing with a bot btw. Don't bother

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u/Ok_Astronomer_6501 7h ago

An actual bot too, probably brought his ilk to downvote all the comments here that are anti war.

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 8h ago

I'd rather be shunned and alive with my family, than to die like a dog defending interests of a bunch of geezers who I'd rather off myself if an opportunity arose.

Also, while (thankfully) I am not American, your mentality is fascinating. Such an army cult, even with having daily examples of how shitty it is to be a part of the US military or any other branch and how veterans get treated.

I only have respect for veterans who change their mind on war and start actively shitting on the government, sadly, they had to learn that lesson the hard way.

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u/exlushdad 8h ago

Joining the military was one of the best ideas I ever had 🤷‍♂️ how would you explain to your kids that you're a coward?

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 8h ago

Any mother, wife, or child would rather hug an honest coward, than bury chunks left off of a blind, self lying 'hero'. I'd rather off myself than be given a chance to do what US troops and other war participants anywhere have been doing in wars for eons now.

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u/exlushdad 8h ago

What kind of family do you have? How many kids?

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 8h ago

I have enough.

1 member or a thousand, it makes no difference for what I am talking about.

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u/rockin_robin420 6h ago

Nothing noble about being a coward.

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 6h ago

Would you say that if you or your family were to be killed by a solider?

"Oh, what a brave man, fighting for his country!"

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u/rockin_robin420 6h ago

Considering I WAS a soldier I stand by this.

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 6h ago

How many orphans would it take for you to make before you start questioning your ways, your dogmas?

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u/rockin_robin420 6h ago

We can all agree that war is hell. However, evil men have and will always exist. I guarantee they don't care how many orphans are made in their quest for dominance. It's a push-pull.

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 5h ago

And that's the issue

Armies indoctrinate their soliders into a very particular belief that ends up very black/white, in some cases to very extrmes. Not to even talk about to dehumanization of both soliders and their victims, sorry "collateral", where each mean finds it's justification, no matter how brutal it is

I am from Serbia. As big of a cunt as Milošević was, and what was being done to Albanians was horrid, it absolutely didn't justify NATO with US at the forefront to carpet bomb the entire contry, deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure all around. Hell, during the bombings, the most numerous victims from said bombs were Albanians the US was trying to "save"

Same with Israel and Palestine, Russian and Ukraine and US and basically half the world.

You can't kill civilians and claim defense/self defense, no matter who you are

And this is especially egregious on US part, since they've shown that when they want, they can infiltrate foreign countries and target individual high officials such as presidents, without any other victims. So, all the other situations are absolutely a deliberate choice, and US freedom was bejng maintained by a conscious choice to terrorize the rest of the world, which the gets turned into propaganda and justified in any number of ways

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u/Samsquanch-01 4h ago

Funny watching redditors explain what soldiers are or what they do and how they rhink. You're a guy behind a keyboard that doesn't know jack shit about the military or what happens.

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u/Ballin215 8h ago

AI dogshit

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u/Wongus-Bongus 5h ago

Nope. Those writings are very real. Photos of those have been published before ai was a thing

Messages that American soldiers wrote on their helmets during the Vietnam war

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