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Vietnam do got hands (lemmy.world)
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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember in the Ken Burns documentary, learning that the US wasn’t really taking and holding land in Vietnam. They’d take a hill one day, only to pull back and give it up a few days later.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

WWI No Man's Land in France and elsewhere.