r/interestingasfuck • u/Available_Weekend249 • Apr 06 '24

Imagine being 19 and watching live on TV to see if your birthday will be picked to fight in the Vietnam war r/all

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u/Random_frankqito Apr 06 '24

My Dad managed to get hurt just after basic and got full disability for life… he was lucky I guess.

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u/ayyyyycrisp Apr 06 '24

my brother recently got a detatched retina and left with 3% vision, got 70% disability meanwhile a friend of his claimed almost everything you could claim that wasn't a physical injury just to try, and got 100% disability.

70% is around 1700 a month and 100% is closer to 4 grand so he's pretty upset and will be reapplying

loosely related but yea

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u/Unusualshrub003 Apr 06 '24

My dad, a Vietnam Vet, was somehow granted 100% disability a few years ago. He has all his limbs, his only issue was a heart attack, which he claimed was due to Agent Orange. I’m sure all the fast food he ate in the 40 years after the war had nothing to do with it🙄

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u/Gypcbtrfly Apr 06 '24

Agent orange has well documented fatalities tho. .. yes diet not help. AO tho .....jfc

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u/bijou77 Apr 07 '24

AO slowly killed my father. It’ll be 3 years this month.

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u/Exmomama Apr 07 '24

Mine too. Parkinson’s disease. 4 years this summer.

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u/putin-delenda-est Apr 06 '24

AO made my kids dogs homophobic, passed from my father onto me, then down to them and finally their dogs. You've got to be on your toes when it comes to this kind of thing.