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History Is Repeating Itself Because Some Never Learned History
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History Is Repeating Itself Because Some Never Learned History
If you were a teenaged male in 1964 an event occurred off the coast of South Vietnam that pre-destined your possible future when the Selective Service System under the direction of President Richard Nixon who, in 1969, reversed the military draft system to prioritize calling-up teenagers who recently turned eighteen rather than call-up men between twenty-one and thirty-six.
The Tonkin Gulf Incident in August 1964 dictated the futures of all military-age males for the next seventeen years until the All-Volunteer U.S. military was established in 1981.
Today history appears to be repeating itself by people who were either not born before 1964, or too young in 1964 to understand the importance of that year, or too stupid to care about The Tonkin Gulf Incident. Or who, in the case of some people, believed that only "suckers and losers" enlisted or allowed themselves to be drafted into our military.
Because many young men today never learned about The Tonkin Gulf Incident they are unable to compare the similarities between what happened in Vietnam's Tonkin Gulf and what is happening today off the coast of Venezuela.
In the Tonkin Gulf in 1964, and today off the coast of Venezuela, an identical U.S. Navy strategy is taking place for the purpose of encouraging an attack on U.S. Navy forces that will provide the President with the justification to attack a foreign country.
The U.S. Navy in the Tonkin Gulf was ordered to provoke a military response from North Vietnam when its fishing boats, pleasure and transport craft were being sunk by U.S. Navy vessels who were told that North Vietnamese boats were ferrying enemy troops into South Vietnam. History revealed that no such sea activity was occurring.
However, North Vietnam responded to U.S. Navy assaults on its water craft by attempting to sink a U.S. Navy vessel. When that occurred the President of the U.S. used that singular incident to initiate a decades-long war in Vietnam that killed over 55.000 Americans and severely wounded hundreds of thousands more.
The current White House Administration is believed by some to be repeating the U.S. Navy's 1964 Tonkin activity near Venezuela that is believed will have the disastrous effect of causing a land-based, urban and jungle war in Venezuela and parts of South American that, not unlike Vietnam, could never be won by the U.S.
The War Library is soliciting E-papers from male Vietnam-era vets who were teenagers in 1964 to write about their perceptions and comparisons between 1964 Tonkin and 2025 Vietnam. We are requesting your review of the U.S. Navy, under the direction of a selectively-chosen Joint Chiefs of Staff who appear willing to repeat the Tonkin Gulf Incident at the cost of many unnecessary lives to be lost.
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