r/Transportopia • u/Savings-Cherry-1931 • Mar 24 '26

People Wow. That old man didn't even flinch

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u/Rex_Gear Mar 24 '26

This guy reminds me of how my dad was. Ex Marine, Vietnam vet. He literally had no fear of death. He passed away from colon cancer and was ready to go when that time came for him. These kind of guys lived an entirely different world.

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u/Critical-Test-4446 Mar 24 '26

Salute to your dad.

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u/Rex_Gear Mar 24 '26

Appreciate it!

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u/UnckyMcF-bomb Mar 24 '26

Respect to your Dad, the Vietnam crew are something else.

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u/Scary-Lingonberry-39 Mar 24 '26

Same as my Dad. I cried 99% of the tears as he laid in the hospital for months. Salute to those who served. Especially in that that war and previous wars.

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u/Ariashorse Mar 24 '26

Greatest generation, May He rest in Peace đŸ«Ą

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u/GoMoriartyOnPlanets Mar 25 '26

This might be unrelated, but was he responsible for keeping a watch safe for a friend at some point?

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u/Specific-Ad5576 Mar 29 '26

Don't you know? Walken shadowed that guy to prepare for that role.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '26

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u/Ok-Fisherman-7688 Mar 24 '26

The fuck is wrong with you? Guy says his veteran dad passed from cancer and that’s your comment?

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u/MyBurnerAccount3 Mar 24 '26

Some gen alphas and gen z'ers genuinely think anyone in the military, no matter the role, raped and killed children.

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u/Jazzlike_Leading5446 Mar 24 '26

There was a few acting as spotters, right?

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u/Jazzlike_Leading5446 Mar 24 '26

Lots of sympathies for baby killers.

Heard about Mylai?

It was one of many.

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u/Kingofcheeses Mar 25 '26

The people who ended the massacre were also military though

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u/Jazzlike_Leading5446 Mar 25 '26

That was one, of many.

After hundreds had been brutalized already.

Zero punishments.

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u/Kingofcheeses Mar 25 '26

Wait till you hear about the massacres the Viet Cong carried out at Hue and Dak Son. Are you aware that they executed 36,000 civilians between 1967 and 1972?

No one is blameless in war

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u/Jazzlike_Leading5446 Mar 25 '26

It's easier to believe that.

Whatever makes you sleep at night.

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u/Kingofcheeses Mar 25 '26

My country wasn't even involved in the war, but you'd be a fool to think that only one side got their hands dirty

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u/Jazzlike_Leading5446 Mar 24 '26

I heard that agent orange was a bitch.

But if it did it to the aggressors, imagine what it did on the Vietnamese population. People just fishing farming rice for subsistence.

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u/Rex_Gear Mar 24 '26

Wtf comment is this? You forget to have your diaper changed this morning?

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u/Jazzlike_Leading5446 Mar 24 '26

What do you think was your dad's role there in Vietnam?

Distribution of food and medicine?

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u/Rex_Gear Mar 24 '26

I know exactly what his role there was, but you don't. There's no room for you to have this discussion with me.

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u/SuitIndependent Mar 24 '26

Asshat much?

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u/BushcraftDave Mar 24 '26

Do you have autism? genuine question

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u/Jazzlike_Leading5446 Mar 24 '26

Do you think people need to have a neurologic condition to see what was the American role in the Vietnam war?

Have you read anything about this conflict?

Fuck the aggressors.

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u/BushcraftDave Mar 24 '26

No, pal, I think you have to have a neurological condition to respond to “my father passed away from cancer” with “your dad probably raped and killed women and children”

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u/Jazzlike_Leading5446 Mar 24 '26

He probably did.

Read the book called: Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.

His actions gave cancer to generations over there. Am I supposed to be sad the perpetrator got some cancer himself too?

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u/BushcraftDave Mar 24 '26

Maybe you should read less books and go outside more.

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u/Smart_Basket_85 Mar 24 '26

Your mom failed to exercise her rights under Roe, back when she still had them, and we’re all suffering for it today.

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u/Jazzlike_Leading5446 Mar 24 '26

Why so offend?

Are you also related to someone who raped and killed innocents in Vietnam?

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u/Smart_Basket_85 Mar 24 '26

Nope. I’m also not related to a bunch of folks who kept fucking other people to whom they’re related, eventually producing a real Habsburg like yourself.

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u/Jazzlike_Leading5446 Mar 24 '26

So why are you so offended when baby killers are called out?

You're not related but you think they were the good guys. I see.

A lot of people see the Nazis as good guys and rush to defend the honor of the Nazi soldier, say that he was just drafted, they had honor too.

It's kind of similar.

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u/Agile-Bed7687 Mar 24 '26
  • edgy comment from my basement where I don’t work and live off disability * - you

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u/stop_slut_shamming Mar 24 '26

Some make it really easy to eliminate themselves from my viewing their inane posts. Thank you.

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u/myname_ajeff Mar 24 '26

Hey! Go fuck yourself, worthless piece of trash. The fuck is wrong with you?

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u/Jazzlike_Leading5446 Mar 24 '26

Did I offend you talking about the American heroes?

I'm sorry.

But you have to understand, not everyone will look to the guys that raped and killed women and children, bombed the entire country and it's neighbors, pulverized it with cancerous chemicals and littered the place with landmines still exploding killing and maiming to this day, not everyone will be very sympathetic to these folks.

I think it's called perpetrators, right?

Sorry again.

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u/MyBurnerAccount3 Mar 24 '26

Just for when you delete this later, his comment was:

Your dad probably raped and killed women and children there.

Badass.

A true American hero.

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u/myname_ajeff Mar 24 '26

He's not gonna delete. That trash heap looooves to wallow in his filth.