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Apollo had Vietnam, Artemis has Iran...
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
Vietnam wasn't a proxy war for the US, it was a proxy war for Russia.
There were orders of magnitude MORE draftee causalities for the US in WWII than Viet Nam.
In percentages or raw numbers?
I just went down a mini rabbit hole.
WW2: 10 million drafted, 16 million in the service. 400,000 casualties overall. I couldn't find anything that split casualty figures by volunteer/drafted status.
Vietnam: 1.9 million conscripted. About 17,000 casualties among the drafted.
There were orders of magnitude MORE draftee protests in the US for Vietnam than WWII. Vietnam was the last conscription conflict for the US, even through today.