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War, all ‘Cow flop’
(Vietnam, 1971)
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The war
in Vietnam was everything that one
didn’t understand—
Frankly, I didn’t at all.
They, the
Vietnamese, the Vietcong, were a lot of noisy slant-eyed rats in a trap.
The trap
that the U.S. and Europe’s industrial Cow flop made (which made millionaires, billionaires).
Although
at the time I failed to notice it, that that was a fact.
Soldiering
had had an impact on me for war and
Vietnam: word for word I never hated the V.C., we
called
them gooks, not sure what it meant, perhaps,
‘guerilla’ a word somebody
invented to
dehumanize
the enemy so we could kill them like rats,
swat them life flies
and we did… (three
million of them)
Although
they did look a tinge pale with secretive eyes, eyes of a wolf—
I didn’t
feel warmth or coldness for them, sorry to say, indifference.
Why did I
go when I was deferred?
To
understand war in spite of
everything and to go away far-away!
But it
was all cow flop, anyway!
#5189 / 4-27-2016
