18 year olds have no experience of America in peacetime

[Recursion]

Above all the "mindset" markers, that one breaks my heart the most.

[sheshe2]

1. Yes.

The ESTABLISHMENT Generation that is today villified as old & in the way, were the generation of 18 yr olds that were given little choice in fighting a jungle war so few were prepared for.
They were Drafted.

This came on the heels of a generation of young men & women who also knew war & did more than beat each other up on social media for the fact of war.
They defeated Hitler's Nazi spread.

The fact of war has always been a threat for every generation & some were never given the option of fighting it directly, or from a computer screen in front of their TV.

THE ESTABLISHMENT Generation today so mocked & degraded by the young voters today, were also 18 when War was all around them.

A reminder of history is in order
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VIETNAM
The dates used by the Associated Press for official U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War are August 1964 (the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution) to January 1973 (the Paris Peace Accords), although U.S. military activities and intervention in Vietnam spanned from 1955 to 1975.

The role of the United States in the Vietnam War began after World War II and escalated into full commitment during the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1973. The U.S. involvement in South Vietnam stemmed from 20 long years of political and economic action.

Since there was no declaration of the war, exact dates are sketchy. However, it is now widely accepted that the Vietnam War started on November 1, 1955 and lasted until April 30, 1975, which is roughly 20 years, or 19 years, 180 days to be precise.

Maybe this will garner some respect from those who screech ESTABLISHMENT who were given little choice in being sent to a jungle war.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-timeline

"Vietnam War Timeline"
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Some education is in order.
From Vietnam as 18 yr olds, to the Middle East as they grew to middle age, This dreadful 'ESTABLISHMENT' generation has known war their entire lives.

[NurseJackie]

2. Thank you!

[Sparkly]

5. Thank you!!!!

I think this all the time.

[MineralMan]

3. Neither did I At 18, or even 29.

I was born a week before the Hiroshima bomb was dropped. I went to kindergarten just as Korea was starting. In grammar school and junior high school, I dove under my desk for A-bomb drills. In high school the Vietnam war was beginning. When I was 20, I got my notice for a draft physical, and joined the USAF that same day. I was 24 when I got out in 1969, and the war was still going on.

[ProudLib72]

4. I've been alive through six full years of peacetime!

According to Global Research: https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-has-been-at-war-93-of-the-time-222-out-of-239-years-since-1776/5565946

I suppose that makes me lucky.

[George II]

6. 18 year olds have no experience of the specter of being sent off to war....

....involuntarily over their heads, either.

[MineralMan]

7. Very true and very relevant.

Baby boomers had that, as did the generation before them.

Current 18 year olds, thank goodness, do not. We ended the draft, because we experienced it.

You're welcome, kids.