Originally Posted by celandina

Not just Japan, whole Western Europe including Germany and gave a lot of support to Asian nations to defend against the "reds", but then it all went to rat shit. I do not know why( Vietnam complex maybe)??..., but when I was 15 I got my first pair of jeans ( not American ) probably DDR) but I have paid my whole monthly allowance to buy from somebody small American flag which I had stiched on the back pocket. That is how proud I was of America... but now? Go figure why I would not sew anything on my back pocket