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Originally Posted by Minte
It wasn't that way during Vietnam. What happened to this generation?
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Starbucks, Apple, Facebook, High-fructose corn syrup, afraid to get their hands dirty, and so on. You get the idea.
But the main reason is the media. The day they stopped showing the real horrors of war on the news, dead Americans and all, was the day that people mostly let war slide. You can bet your ass that if we all had to see dead people, dead kids, dead women, and dead Americans every night on TV, lots of people would be protesting in the streets day and night. But when you hide the real horrors of war, it's easier to do your protesting on Facebook or the designated protest zones the government set up.
No one these days knows what war really looks like, other than those who have been there.