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TIL: People like Forrest Gump were real. In the Vietnam War, a program under LBJ, and McNamara swept through the ghettos of America looking for low IQ people to induct into the Armed Forces; in total 354000 people. Termed "McNamara's Morons" they were KIA at 3x the rate of other soldiers

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