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This is just a guess BUT maybe because it's thier country and it is being invaded by people that have F'd with since forever ?
Civilians fought on North Vietnam's side all the time...in the North and the South.
When Hitler proclaimed that upon taking Stalingrad all of the city’s male residents would be killed and its women deported, the stage was set for a bloody, hard-fought battle. Stalin ordered all Russians strong enough to hold a rifle to take up arms in defense of the city.
ultraliberals are not happy unless they are obsessing about something.
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