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Sage I didn't know Agent Orange was so deadly ...I just know how our
boys suffered and no one wanted to know. Vietnam was so unpopular...as was our slogan...All the way with LBJ.....Ugh!!!!!! that when the war was over there was no interest in any problems the returned soldiers experienced. Agent Orange mishandling and suffering was dismissed for years.......The Vietnam Vets...were booed in the Anzac Day March....it took years for them to be recognised and for many it has come too late. It wasn't right to blame conscripts and career army guys for an war that shouldn't have happened.
We were warned of the communist peril hitting our shores.....what nonsense.....Vietnam is now a favoured spot for Australians to travel to.
I was in Washington in 1985 ...alone....and I walked the wall of remembrance my hand trailed that long long wall of names...and I cried for boys of my Youth who never had a life, and who suffered unspeakable miseries not just from the so called enemy.
I am very pleased for Marilyn that she has had marijuana assistance.......I just can't reconcile the damn weed for any other use. ......that's me .....I have no problem with other people using it any more than I am a reformed smoker picking on those that still smoke. Don't ya just loathe that type? .....Legalize it I say and tax it and get the country out of debt.
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Kabu
on June 9, 2010 at 8:47 AM
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My BIL died thirty years after his service in Viet Nam! He was a victim of agent orange! His children had learning difficulties, too! It was a mess and it took a fight but it was recognized just before he died and thus his widow got his benefits! Unbelievable what they did to young soldiers! I was just reading what you said about Marilyn, so happy that Marijuana has made a difference for her! I wish my state had medical Marijuana, I would love to try it to see if it would dull the pain of my migraines! sam
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sam444
on June 8, 2010 at 9:37 PM
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Oh, and one more comment about Marijuhana.
Kabu,
When I convinced Marilyn to give the evil weed a try, she weighed less than 117 pounds. She was at death's door, literally starving to death, due to absolute loss of appetite, and extreme difficulty in swallowing anything. She now weighs more than 150 pounds, and conplains about how fat she has now become. Marijuhana has saved her life, without a doubt in the world.
If someone is destined to move on to more and more dangerous drugs, it was destined to happen. Blaming any substance as being a gateway drug, inevitably leading to the more dangerous ones, is scapegoating. Many people skip right straight to the deadiest of drugs, without even trying any of the comparatively innocous drugs first. As I said, DESTINED. Sorry about your family member, but nothing would have kept him from taking the dangerous, hard drugs, nothing on earth. I hope that he has kicked the addiction, of as sometimes happens, was never addicted at all.
Guy
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northsage_45
on June 8, 2010 at 7:49 PM
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Kabu, did you know that if a SINGLE tanker ship of Agent Orange, had sunk,
All of our oceans would have become dead, stagnant, stinking pools of poisonous, death soup, in only a few months, just ahead of all the animal life unable to breathe the befouled atmosphere of the dying Earth, including each and every one of us humans. We only dodged that bullet by the sheerest of blind luck. We are far too immature a species to stay at the top of the food chain or even survive in caves again. We are only just intelligent enough to wipe ourselves and nearly every other form of life out. It's a damed shame that we'll be taking nearly all the rest of life on Earth with us, when we go. Make way for the rats and roaches, they will inherit the world from us, and very soon now, I fear.
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on June 8, 2010 at 7:29 PM
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Kabu,
posted by
northsage_45
on June 8, 2010 at 7:09 PM
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a very thoughtful blog Sage......I believed for awhile what they told us
about Vietnam except for the lottery conscript in Australia...(20 yr old males played odds and.... evens with birth dates, evens ....you went into the army.....odds you stayed home and got on with your life.)
Anyway eventually I started thinking for myself and joined the peace march.......Agent Orange.....horrific.........whatever was used to kill the weed....I know nothing about that so I can't comment...but I am a Marijuana hater. My youngest son started there and tried some harder drugs.......Yeah I am sorry I smoked cigarettes around him...I hate tobacco too.
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Kabu
on June 8, 2010 at 7:00 PM
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