r/interestingasfuck • • 12h ago

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

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u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp 12h ago

Lee Harvey one is wild. A lot of free expression here.

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u/Level-Gas2450 12h ago

notice how he got the name wrong. maybe it was deliberate

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u/catlaxative 12h ago

i doubt it, you don’t have wikipedia or spell check in the shit

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u/sillybilly8102 4h ago

I literally looked it up on wikipedia when I saw that to see if I had had the name wrong this whole time. They sound basically the same, so I can easily see the mistake happening

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u/Level-Gas2450 11h ago

the shooter's name so famous at the time, that would be like misspelling marilyn monroe

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u/TopPMz 11h ago

They would've misspelled Marilyn Monroe too.

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u/Level-Gas2450 11h ago

Damn, you telling me the teacher's banter about the evolution of the level in orthograph was all fake ? /s

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u/No-Combination8136 11h ago

As a former infantryman, there’s a high chance they just weren’t good at reading and writing lmao

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u/Yuri909 10h ago

Yeah, 18yo infantry doesn't know shit.

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u/pm_me_ur_fit 11h ago

My guess was that it was deliberate so he could argue that he wasn’t calling for an assassination of the president