Dude, who even knows.
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My first introduction to the concept of the Vietnam War was actually the NES platform-adventure adaptation of Rambo II
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Thinking about how when I was a kid in the 80s-90s the Vietnam War was understood in terms of draftee line infantry or maybe flight crews and now as we grow more distant and deeper into the SOCOM-first all-volunteer professional military era I increasingly see it presented as the MACV-SOG Birth of Modern Special Forces
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Watching the beginning of The Running Man, remembering all those ‘90s Image comics, playing Phantom Pain, remembering all those ‘90s-2000s Space Marines
remembering every other title sequence in the ‘80s
“the story begins with a flyover then aerial insert” is the Vietnam War’s lasting impact on American culture
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watching ‘80s movies in a bar and all those chopper pilots we trained for 'Nam really left a mark on our credits sequences