Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers

shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• khepri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Holy crap this is what Forrest Gump was about I never realized…

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To be fair, it’s about other things, too. Like Jenny’s character’s arc had nothing to do with that part.

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    • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, it shows the state of the country regarding protesting the war in Vietnam, Black Panthers and such, although we don’t get to hear what he says about the war at the National Mall before he spots her running out.

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  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The movie was like that. The book was simply horrible.

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• Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes, it was based on ‘McNamara’s Morons’ as people said. And to be fair to the book, it does a better job of making Forrest Gump more self aware, he does in fact grasp that he’s being exploited and underpaid and under trained, used for the most deadly jobs and mocked for it.

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  • Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    …d-does he?

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    • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some readers think so. But there’s always projection.

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