1. A model for violent leftist protests against U.S. foreign policy. Led to a decline in patriotism and respect for our institutions such as anti-military, unpatriotic, flag burning activities by the left at every opportunity, either for ideology or cowardice. College demonstrations against the Vietnam war ended as soon as the draft ended. Draft dodgers became known as draft resisters and praised for it.3. Fear of another Vietnam.4. Presidents or advisors making military policy and getting yes-men generals and admirals to carry them out instead of asking for the best advice possible. Those who say no are forced to resign.5. Ending the draft which now gives us two generations of Americans, most of whom do not know what it is like to serve their country in an always dangerous world and younger leaders who have no concept of what the military is really like. And we have a military without the country being 100% behind them.6. Began the extreme ideological division among Americans.7. Led to the socialist Peace and Freedom Party slowly hijacking the Democratic party until it is now unrecognizeable from the Truman-JFK-LBJ era. From Cold War warriors to a Vichy mentality. 8. Types like Jane Fonda were not prosecuted for giving aid and comfort to the enemy simply because Congress did not formally declare war -- thus blurring the line between dissent and treason. 9. Pentagon papers set the model for newspapers more often leaking military strategy and tactics -- although an isolationist Senator did the same thing a few days before WWII.10. Walter Cronkite and the media turned against the war and set the model for a disloyal press and perhaps disloyal Senators like Harry 'We lost The War" Reid and Durban who compared our military to Nazis and prisons to Soviet Gulags.I could go on for pages. One of my best friends was the late Col. Raymond F. Toliver, Historian for the Fighter Aces Association, and author of 5 books on fighter aces, commanded the 20th fighter wing in the 1950s in England, and served as an aide to Curtis LeMay before going to the Pentagon. Over several decades, he told me much about the leadup to the war. In 1953 he was in Indo-China with Wild Bill Donovan's fact-finding group that told Eisenhower never to commit land forces in SE Asia. He advised the French Air Force at Dienbenphiu, and they did not follow his advice. He refused a jump to Major General if he would help plan air war against the Viet Cong -- he was forced out of the military in 1965 because he disagreed with Pentagon policy and official lying about casualties and body counts. In Toliver's opinion, McNamara is the greatest traitor in U.S. History. He believed we could fight a war on the cheap and essentially ordered the military to follow his plans.  And the Harvard "whiz-kids" in the administration were anti-military.Off topic a bit --Toliver's last assignment in the military was to advise the Saudis how to defend against a possible attack from ..... Iraq. That was in 1965.

I side with AA.For those interested in the best site for fighter aces of all wars Google Jan Safarik. If you look up a name, he cites several sources for each. Most interesting are the female aces from the USSR.

T.R. also gets my vote.

Charlemagne called his empire the New Israel and himself David. He called his grandson Lothair Joshua for his warlike qualities, youngest grandsonson Louis Jonathan, Eberhard Nehemiah, and Einhard Bezaleel. Louis the Pious referred to Charles, his son from Judith, as Benjamin.Many Franks assumed Latinized Hebrew names such as Abbo for Abba, Iterius for Itiel, and Haimo for Chaim, Poets praised Empress Judith as Miriam, Esther, and Rachael according to their perceptions of her.A large number of the high clergy took Hebrew names instead of those of apostles and saints: Bishops Elijah of Troyes, Solomon of Constance, Jeremiah of Sens, Isaac of Langres, Jesse of Amiens, Jonah of Orl?ans, and Joseph, the Scot; Abbots Samuel of Lorsch, Adam of Jumi?ges, and Samson, of Pinnamellaria. Women too received Old Testament names, foremost among them Empress Judith at birth.A controversial book, A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 769-900, describes the existence of a Jewish princedom in Septimania at the time of the Carolingians, whose Davidic prince (Nasi) married Pepin the Short's sister Alda and by doing so became his vassal -- hence, the Carologinans could claim the Davidic succession by suzerainty. Regarding the Tribe of Dan, the racist British-Israel World Federation believes the Celtic-Anglo-Saxon Danish mix are the pure and true descendants of Israel's Lost tribes, whereas Jews are merely mongrelized mix of Hitties, Idumeans and assorted Armenoids. They claim that the Persians called the captive tribes of Israel Sacchaseni, Children of Isaac and that sea faring Dan gave its name to the sea faring Danes (Danmark). Also Tea Tephi, the daughter of the last king of Israel somehow ended up in ireland, married a chieftain who descendants became the Stuarts. They also claim two tribes headed east to become progenitors of the Japanese Samurai (from Samaria) -- that theory came about at the time of the Anglo Japanese alliance before WWI. Their illustrated pamphlets show bas reliefs of Israelite prisoners who had "noble aquiline British noses" whereas captured Hittites had the obvious curved nostrils of Armenoids and Jews.

The dems have modernized the Tamanny Hall approach for votes for an unassailable majority–open border, amnesty to easy citizenship for the uneducated with handouts while keeping out skilled people = eternal dem majority.A numberlesslyeachotherish (courtesy of e.e.cummings) lumpenproletariat demanding entitlements is their goal.

PC also kills the fun of telling ethnic, gender, and scatological jokes — the most amusing of all, along with great puns.It ties in with the maddening contradiction taught in schools: Never stereotype, but you should respect the cultures of others -- except suttee, binding of feet, female circumcision, sundance ritual, etc. I would have included body mutiltions, but now in the West people do that by choice with piercings and tattooing.One ESL teacher in L.A. was told this at a meeting at the time an influx of Iranians had come to the city. "Cheating and lying are part of the Iranian culture, but never confront Iranian males if you catch them cheating because they are immature and cannot handle criticism."

“The sun never sets on the British Empire.” So it was said in those days before WWI.

A general question about the state of a college MA thesis today. Have things changed over the decades that you can select your own? When I was in grad school during the 1950s, many professors told us what thesis to write about, parts of which which typically ended up later uncredited in one of their books.