Regret In The Vietnam War

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“One of these days you’ll regret that,” says my grandpa. Basically don’t do anything you are going to regret. So the next time you are walking down the street and see a drug dealer, don’t go buy some,”duh”! Lets look back to the 60’s when the U.S. went to Vietnam to fight in the war. I bet we regret going to Vietnam to fight in a war because of a treaty. Also another throughout history is pearl harbor. Germany did not want the U.S. in the war yet Japan attacked Peal Harbor. Later on Japan regrets their decision by us dropping two nukeclear bombs on Japan and then surrerding to the U.S.

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