(July 25, 2018 at 7:13 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(July 25, 2018 at 6:58 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Guns, bombs, bullets, napalm, poison gas, etc. I'm not saying Marshall was right, but I do see his point. And Truman desegregated the Armed Forces in 1948, IIRC.
All of those factors played themselves out in Vietnam, yet I'd not be inclined to attribute our failure to such tensions.
And you weren't a sixty-something conservative fighting a world war in Vietnam.
I went to boot camp in 1969. Half the company was Midwest farm boys. The other half was recruited from Harlem. They bunked us alphabetically and we had more important things to do than argue about race, we were trying too hard to make our Company Commander, MMC(SS) H. K. Wiggins, happy.