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Is it really dramatic? Then just put it in the main feed.
Is it chuddy? (Be honest.) Then /h/chudrama.
Is it from back in old boomer times or before?
This is the place for it.
Feel free to talk about history here at
whatever level of seriousness you feel like.
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In addition to something like this, I would recommend Gen. Ridgway's book about his time there as MacArthur's successor. He was at the very top in a position to actually know what decisions were being made up there and why. He was not into politics so he's got a great perspective on stuff like MacArthur getting fired, whether we should have expanded the war, etc.
This is the guy who was so honest
he named his attacks "Operation Killer", "Operation Ripper". Some bureaucrat tried to explain to him that for political reasons you can't choose names that. He was like "but our objective in that operation was just to kill a lot of Chinese". 
After that the next one was "Operation Meatgrinder". They stopped letting him name operations after that.
Also he had the guts early on to say we shouldn't go into Vietnam. Not because he was soft on communism or something but because he understood this was a terrible place for us to fight a war.
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Nics!!! Thanks!
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I hope you appreciate how creative I was there. Nobody else could have possibly thought of that.
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