it's for us history class. and were supposed to do it, as if we were protesting the war in vietnam
208700
try going to pacifica radio or kpfk fm and look at their links and archives ,aclu .org website and the website for disinformation from the book disinformation you are being lied to
673115
No..I surely didn`t know. What a wonderful project! We need this about now, to show our Military that we DO stand behind them, and to get more Americans to SHOW what we are made of! Let`s stand up for our country and troops...What a great opportunity!! U.S.A. ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   : )
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we are not taught how to be active in civic issues and there is alot of negative press about those who are they are referred to as dissenters which if you notice is only used to describe progressive minded people and terrorists in mainstream media look at the mainstream media coverage of the student walk outs all these idiots I walked out cuz she did brown pride hoorah but what we don't see is the hundereds of young people organizing on their own and meeting after school hours to empower themselves or hear the testimony of all the young people who met in L.a. from as far away as riverside and orange county talking about their parents or themselves that might be stigmatized as criminals by racist legislation or how they have had recuiters from 4 year universities like berekely ask them to attend their school but even if they could find a way to fund their education they would not be allowed to attend, or students who calmly walked out only to be confronted by policemen in riot gear pointing guns at them and the substitute teacher and other staff members who walked out with the students We allow ourselves to be manipulated because it is easier to hate and harder to care and it takes effort to find progressive or independent news sources or research the truth for ourselves and to easy to turn on the idiot box and be spoon fed pop culture the good bad and the ugly
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After they took to our streets, May 1, they created a backlash which they will never see the end of.\n\nThis ripple has become a storm and soon will be a tsunami of unequal proportions.\n\nThe middle class is the power class and as we unite through joining pro-American organizations and spending our money saving our heritage, we will be a force not to be reckoned with!\n\nTo quote a Patriot....."be afraid....be very afraid"
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i got news for you honey. DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON TV ! Not even the news is accurate. Everything is slanted for a specific purpose. and apparently it's working on you. why don't you come on over here and we'll take some US History classes together and then talk about it.
318521
History repeating itself,thought America after Nam would have learned a lesson.Thousands are being killed and for what? they don't even want us there
142704
they are hurting more than harming, these demonstrations are way out of hand. did you know there was a high school in california where protesting students tore down the american flag and put up the mexican flag. that's just bad PR.
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If 1/2 the schools in the US thinks yes, then teachers are not doing well in the history aspect of education. Now, these kids need to know their rights, and the rights of others. I thought schools get taught the Constitution and bill of rights. At least I would expect thee civil war to be mentioned before 6th grade, the rest would follow. Freedom of speech, FREEDOM OF PRESS, freedom of religion, and so on. With this knowledge one can understand why America is America and not new great Brittan or some British ruled country paying taxes on land we are not living and harvesting from. ( ha, nowadays, this country is doing all kinds of illegal activities. No wonder why 1/2 the youth is lost and confused)
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how's this???? i got offered extra credit if i would go protest the war in iraq.\n\nyes, i have heard bush called every name under the sun in my classes. bush is like hitler. we lost the war. we are lead by a facist regime, and on and on and on. i'm used to it. but i honestly wonder if the previous generation realizes how slanted it is. that we are being "educated" by political activists disguised as teachers.\n\ni even heard once a comparison between the nazis and the confederate army(during the civil war).\n\nfreakin lawyers\n\nanyway...yep i agree with you. hang in their friend. your not alone
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No, we mean that it was a bad decision to go in, and it will go down in history as a political and military humiliation.  It does mean we want to lose the war, but rather that it was obvious from the start that we were going to.  Yes, we did over through the Iraqi government, but now we're stuck there with no indication of any viable way out.  And if you think we lost in Vietnam because people protested you should consider picking up a history book.\n\n_______________\nI believe I did not misspell anything.  Your spelling comment was both ignorant and unnecessary, as is your apparent believe that political ideology is absolute and is the defining characteristic of the individual.  Oh, and it would be "the liberal who," not "the liberal that."
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Even though we had all the technology, we lost to peasants on bicycles.\n\nThe same is coming in Iraq\n\nAs for the idiot "Polaris" below:\n\nNot everyone in Vietnam was American. You just dragged other nations into it so that you could push the responsibility for it on to others. Once again, the same in Iraq
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Yes Veterans day is a day to rejoice in the feedoms and liberty that many people take for granted.  It is to celebrate the fact that many brave men went off to war during WW1 (of which there are so few remaining), WW2 (numbers also dwindling), The Korean War, Vietnam and any other war torn countries that North American has lost it's youth.  Today you can include females in that mix also as there are many brave women who have gone to battle in the Gulf War and the oil war that is going on now.  I usually don't answer homework questions but feel that everyone should be aware of the brave sacrifices that these veterans gave in order for us to live as we do today.  Bravo and hope that your paragraph will educate others in your class on what Veteran's Day is all about.
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History in US has become too Politically Correct- and that is the problem.\nI also know the facts about the War of Secession, and it is indeed as you describe it.\nAnother hushed up fact is that 160 000 blacks served in the Confederate Army, most of them as free men and volunteers, about half of them as normal, armed, frontline troops. To make things even funnier, they served in integrated units alongside white men- while the Norhtern armies were segregated.\nAbout 6% of the men in "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg were black.\n\nAnd yes, this information is pretty hard to find. Also any information about the Islamic conquest of Christian lands- which led to the Crusades. But plenty of "history" on how the evil crusaders attacked the peace loving muslims. Also next to nothing about the Mongol invasions of Christian and Muslim lands.\n\nWhy is it done so? you might ask the same about mass media coverage of the Iraq war. \nJust too many busybodies with an agenda lying- that's my idea.
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I think that you're starting to see some resentment from younger people in the country, but I seriously doubt that anyone would take that kind of initiative for protests.  There have been nationwide protests of the Iraq war in the past, but they didn't get nearly as much media attention as Vietnam protests did.  I think that young people today are also a little bit more worried about things.  Personally, I'm in school full time and work a full time job.  As much as I'd like to get involved on something like that, I simply can't afford to walk away from my job and continue to pay for school.  I think that a lot of people my age are in similar positions.  Back then, it was a lot easier to get away with something like that because a college degree was not a requirement to having a successful future.  If I took any time off school, I would suddenly become an older student and less appealing to employers once I earn my degree.  There's simply too much at stake.
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I think only the person that spat on you can truly answer this question. But, maybe it was all of the liberal rhetoric floating through the campuses or the weed wafting through the air.\n\nThank the Viet Nam vets for not letting it happen again.\n\nThank you for your service and yur sacrifice!
119303
I have many ways to eloquently prove my points or rant and rave like a lunatic to feel better...but I can't possibly make a better point than one that I saw on the news today.\n\nIn Montebello, California...students from another school had ditched class....again....and went to Montebello High School to try and get the students out of that school to run amok in the streets, but none of the students from Montebello came out.\n\nThose punk a** kids who do not deserve to be here had the nerve to take down the American flag...and then put it back up UPSIDE down. WHAT THE????? Talk about a slap in the face of the very nation they are trying to live in and gain rights in...they just proved what I have believed all along. Someone that comes here and pays no attention or respect for the laws of the US will have no respect for the US as a nation and will have no allegiance. THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED! THEY DON'T GIVE A RIP ABOUT THE US EXCEPT WHAT THEY CAN GET OUT OF US!\n\nDon't get me started!
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Thankfully, we're veering right.\n\nStill with that tired, old "war for oil" hippie protest I see. Tell me, exactly where is all of this oil we've stolen in the war.\n\nWe became the world's police after WWII, way before you were born.\n\nWe could be spending our money on making our military even stronger is we weren't busy wasting it on failed liberal social programs.\n\nThe LAST THING libs need is a better drug program.\n\nWho's threatening your freedom of speech? Do you mean when those "evil conservatives" try to prevent you from urinating on the graves of soldiers?