“Immigration agents operating near Vail placed ... ace of spades playing cards ... similar to ‘death cards’ left on corpses by U.S. forces” in Vietnam, in cars left behind after immigrants’ arrests” [FN1] Lincoln said, “Let the people know the facts and the country will be safe.” 1/11

After the Vietnam “war” (1964-1975) [FN2] was as close as we got to “greatness,” a status, we learned in grades 1 to 12, rooted in founding principles of liberty, justice, and equality, not armed military might. Three time lines chart our near-greatness: 2/11

1) 1789 to 1954. As long as chattel slavery was allowed, and even protected by, the Constitution, we could not be great. Abolition of slavery was an important first step, but SCOTUS, in Brown I, [FN3] said “separate” is inherently unequal. Greatness became reasonably possible. 3/11

2) 1789 to 1920. Women had few rights. Amendment XIX, ratified in 1920, said their right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged ... on account of sex.”
3) 1789 to mid-1970s. Europeans killed peoples who had lived here for millennia. 4/11

Vietnam was brought to an end, in large part, because the press had access. By June, 1971, “71% of Americans believed” U.S. military involvement “had been a mistake, and a remarkable 58% thought it immoral.” The Pentagon Papers showed that Presidents 5/11

Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson argued for more U.S. materiel and troops knowing that a military victory was impossible. Nixon was concerned that his secret bombing of Cambodia or his sabotage of 1968 Paris peace talks would be disclosed. [FN4] 6/11

Each night, the news showed what was happening in Vietnam & people grew to oppose the war. Had U.S. leaders told the truth at the outset, there would have been no involvement in Vietnam. The Russian plant in the Oval Office doesn’t want to disclose: the Epstein files. 7/11

ICE also wants voter registration records. trump is under the pressure of kompromat Putin has in his hands. If trump stays in office, there will be no elections this year as trump will invoke the Insurrection Act when he fomented insurrection on Jan 6. 8/11

Military personnel take an oath to the Constitution. This administration violates the Constitution every day. ICE tossed out death cards in Colorado. If ICE continues, when will they start cutting off ears, another barbaric thing that happened in Vietnam. 9/11

Footnotes:
FN1. Seth Klamann, “ICE investigates after Colorado group says agents left ‘death cards’ in arrested immigrants’ abandoned cars,” Denver Post, 1/23/26, accessed 1/25/26.
FN2. Military deployment in Vietnam did not come about by a declaration of war, but “war” is how we have referred to that involvement. 10/11

FN3. Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 495 (1954).
FN4. “How Richard Nixon’s obsession with Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers sowed the seeds for the president’s downfall,” The Conversation, 4/23/21, accessed 1/25/26. 11/11