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Hoyt

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5. Didn't deserve pepper spray, but sounds like he's mostly pissed about

Reply to ancianita (Original post)

Mon Jul 27, 2020, 06:17 PM

Jul 2020

participating in Vietnam — which was a misuse of our troops too, especially draftees — not BLM.

At least he was a medic, but he was right about killing innocent Vietnamese.

trump has certainly ticked people off.

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Beware paramilitaries, and their assaults on military veterans [View all] ancianita Jul 2020 OP

All he did was talk and the attacked him, maybe blinded him Eliot Rosewater Jul 2020 #1

And the badass vet just kept on walking and talking! ancianita Jul 2020 #2

Makes you wonder what rump supporting vets think, how do they justify this? Eliot Rosewater Jul 2020 #3

I think their confusion of patriotism with nationalism justifies their silence. ancianita Jul 2020 #4

I didn't 100% understand the vet's stories, but that's a disgrace what they did soothsayer Jul 2020 #6

As a vet he admitted that US troops committed war crimes. Trumpgoons don't care. ancianita Jul 2020 #7

Oh I see, thank you soothsayer Jul 2020 #9

Didn't deserve pepper spray, but sounds like he's mostly pissed about Hoyt Jul 2020 #5

But ancianita Jul 2020 #8

He definitely has ticked some off. Too many generals speaking out. Hoyt Jul 2020 #10

Not the right some from what I see. I want to see the Joint Chiefs pissed off. ancianita Jul 2020 #11