It was even traumatic for those of us at home, watching the war on the news every night for my entire adolescence. The Vietnam War ended on my 19th birthday.

I would say with near 100% certainty that -no one- in this photo thought it was a “cool thing” to be where they were, and to be doing what they were doing.

You should be able to relax. I am german. I know a lot of pictures from people riding tanks here. And still we find bombs underneath our cities. But I don't feel the urge to say to others they are not allowed to enjoy their positive memorys. His dad survived the war. Great for him. Let him celebrate it.

Maybe you should research the draft? My father was in Vietnam and it wasn't by choice.

@ Invisible Sheep- Whoa, slow your roll there, you're mistakingly assuming that most Americans, including the soldiers who served in the war, wanted this war. Most American citizens did not want this war, nor did they agree with it. I have seen documentaries and I have the honor of knowing some war vets. No one liked the horror that came from this war. The "cool" factor has nothing to do with the war itself. In America, we our very proud of our vets and very thankful to them. Most people who join the service are hard working, everyday people who the majority of us are also. Most of us have had a relative or at least know someone who has or is currently serving. Many don't agree with any of the wars or the consequences thereof, but we are still proud of our vets for serving our country and protecting its people. Just as you are proud of the vets in your country.

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I believe the child of the soldier is not trying to say that the war was cool, that what was done to your country was cool, and I don’t know that it would be considered cool under any circumstances, other than this person is proud of the person their dad has become all these years later, possibly because of the atrocities he saw while in Vietnam, and that just seeing this picture of what happened to your country and to him and the men he served with, those memories made him cry. To me, that doesn’t shout war criminal that loved every moment he spent in country. It would take a true sociopath or psychopath to think anything that was done there by the US was just or needed.

Me and my husband went to remnants of war in vietnam museum. All you said was true. We were so devastated on how the Vietnamese suffered under Americans. To thinks were Filipinos, but we were really saddened bout what we saw. Specially the agent orange's further impact on children. We somehow learned the other side of the Americans.

Invisible sheep, I would encourage you to learn less from "documentaries" and more from actual history.

Yes well they didn't have a choice and it's the past. Move on buttercup

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I'm not Vietnameseand I don't think this photo is 'cool' and I'm sure most people don't see it that way. And the fact that the Dad cried shows he didn't find this 'cool' either. Don't forget bored Panda writes the weirdest titles to their posts. I know the other side of the story, I've seen the pictures of the jars with the malformede children and so have many others.

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Buddy, these guys did their best to keep communsim away from your country. So that you could write some s**t on the internet about war veterans. They failed, but you still have the opprtunity. Cherish it.

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Yea americans suck