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[quote=APAULT,249196]History and language.  Johnny said,   'The war claimed the lives of more than 58,000 Americans.The financial cost to the United States is over $150 billion dollars. The first combat troops arrived in 1965 , and the cease-fire of January 1973. Millions of Vietnamese were killed during the war.'

This is an American history of the war.  For the Vietnamese it went on much longer, they had to live with the devastation, memories of the horrors they had expereinced and loss of families.  The cost to the US in money terms was high, but the Vietnamese economy was destroyed.  Interestingly, 'only' 58,000 Americans were killed, but 'millions of Vietnamese were killed'.  Oh the use of the passive voice ... it is so easy to leave out what would otherwise be the subject of the sentence.  The point is that Americans (with some allies) killed the millions of Vietnamese.

No lies anywhere there Johnny, but we might call it misreporting!  I haven't seen a Vietnamese record of the history, but I bet it is a little different.[/quote]

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