Ben II
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Operation Rolling Thunder. From 1965 to 1968, the United States conducted a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. The goal was to break the will of the North Vietnamese government and people. To make the cost of continuing the war too high to bear. They dropped 864,000 tons of bombs. The will was not broken. So they escalated. Operation Linebacker. Operation Linebacker II, the Christmas Bombings of 1972: twelve days of around-the-clock bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, described by some U.S. generals as trying to "bomb them back to the Stone Age." Hospitals were hit. Residential areas were hit. Bạch Mai Hospital, the largest hospital in North Vietnam, was hit repeatedly. After the Christmas Bombings, the North Vietnamese negotiating position at the Paris Peace talks did not weaken. It strengthened. They bombed us into refusing to surrender. Every bomb that fell on a hospital, every family killed in their home, every village erased from the map created ten more people who would die before they accepted foreign domination. This is what American strategists, with all their degrees and all their think tanks and all their war games, failed to understand about the people they were trying to break. You cannot bomb dignity out of people who have decided they would rather die than give it up.




和第一眼就讨厌的人结婚是种什么体验? 我和老公是相亲认识的。那天我爸把我忽悠出去,见到他,160,比我矮4厘米,长得像只仓鼠,穿得像个农民工。 我瞬间没精神了,就他和介绍人在前面聊,我和介绍人跟在后头东张西望。 介绍人是个骗吃骗喝的,把他忽悠出来,坑他买了保险,还想让他请吃饭。 我看他小小一只,可怜巴巴的,又像没什么钱,就坚决没同意,在公园压了会儿马路就散了。 回去加了微信,聊了几天,发现他很有趣,高考比我高十几分,学材料化学的。 感觉不错,他约我去新开的网红火锅店,去了果然没位置,我俩吹着冷风走了半小时,找了家麻辣烫店吃了一碗。回去他骑摩托在前面,我骑电瓶车跟在后面。 后来发现他性格极好,从不见他焦虑生气。而我很内向,容易焦虑,和家里人吵架能把嗓子吵哑。 我就像住在井底的蛙,一直觉得挺好,直到他掀开井盖,阳光照进来,招手说上来。 谈了四个月,疫情放开,我俩都阳了,难受得要死,觉得不能以光棍的身份狗带。我30,他大我一岁,两边父母都高兴。 我家说不要彩礼,结果当晚他直接转来12.8万。我存了。去金店买三金,觉得金价太贵,想等便宜再买,结果再也没降过。 我社恐不想办婚礼,他同意。他妈操办,订了厅,十几桌酒,没办仪式,大家吃了顿饭。大屏幕放着丑丑的结婚照,背景音乐是我从小就想要的《fade to black》。 酒席菜很好吃,我吃到了自己结婚的饭。收的人情钱他都给我了。 他房子偏,说要买车给我上班用。真买了辆8.6万的逸动,我特别喜欢。他说工资都交给我,自己把卡拿来了。 我从没提过,也从没有人这么信任我。后来发现他收入不错,我俩一年加起来25万左右,他在合肥还有个房。工作近十年,我攒了70多,加上他给的钱、父母赞助、结婚收的礼,存款到了150多。 然后要了小孩。运气不好,22周就得绝对卧床保胎。他妈来照顾我,比我亲妈还好,烧菜好吃,家里干净,切水果、灌热水袋、洗衣服,我稍微一动她就关切地问要什么。我们总是轻声说话,不像我在家跟妈吼来吼去。 结婚一年,我从没跟他和他家人大声说过话。家里总是笑声不断。上个月他评上了副高。 他相过很多次亲,没女的看上他,幸亏我审美有问题,看上了。他也没什么恶习,不烟不酒不赌不玩游戏。唯一的爱好是禅与摩托车的维修艺术。 我现在越看他越可爱——可能因为我喜欢仓鼠吧,他是真的像。






A serious city needs a serious mayor who knows how to respect other cultures without becoming a caricature.




















