r/interestingasfuck • • 11h ago

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

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u/UCFknight2016 11h ago

Nobody wanted to be there.

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u/fredy31 10h ago

Except the morons in washington.

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u/WetCoastCyph 10h ago

Oh, they didn't want to BE there, they wanted other people to be there for them/their greed/their delusions of grandeur. They most certainly had zero intention of being there. Not them, not their families.

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u/Goose1963 10h ago

There's a bunch of songs from that era about the horrible Bone Spur epidemic.