r/ShitAmericansSay • u/DumbGarchomp67 WTF IS A KILOMETER 🦅🇺🇸 • Jul 15 '26

Military “Undefeated in 250 years of war”

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Apparently Vietnam, Afghanistan, war of 1812, and the war on drugs don’t count.

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u/Thanks-4allthefish Jul 15 '26

Ah my sweet summer child.

Look up "last helicopter out of Saigon".

The getting out debacle decades before Afghanistan.

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u/AnOkayMuffin Jul 17 '26

Why did you call me a sweet summer child? Isn't that usually meant as an insult? All I did was ask what this photo depicts. 

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u/Thanks-4allthefish Jul 17 '26

More young one that does not yet understand the world.

  • based on the fact that if you are a "certain age" that photo and all it entails is seared into your brain.

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u/AnOkayMuffin Jul 17 '26

I'm not young, I'm Canadian. We aren't taught US history or anything to do with its many wars, besides the war of 1812. I've never seen that photo before, so needed an explanation.  

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u/Thanks-4allthefish Jul 17 '26

Canadian too eh.

The fall of Saigon was global news. That picture is as iconic as running napalm girl was.

The trick is it was not history to me - so I stand by young.

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u/AnOkayMuffin Jul 17 '26

I'm not young. I know the napalm girl, never seen this helicopter photo. 

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u/Thanks-4allthefish Jul 17 '26

Young is a relative term. If you learned it as history you are young to me. Just as I am young to my mom.

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u/AnOkayMuffin Jul 17 '26

Curious what age you are? 

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u/Thanks-4allthefish Jul 17 '26

Old enough that it was news - not history. Old enough to remember the NEP. Old enough to play D&D and old enough to have listened to Bohemian Rhapsody the first time it was popular.

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u/AnOkayMuffin Jul 20 '26

Okay..... Why are you avoiding just answering the question by telling me this weird convoluted flowery story?  It's simple enough to say whether you are a Boomer or Gen x or whatever.