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Minicast D6: New Vietnam Theme Park

Author
Ed Burmila / Mass for Shut-ins
Published
Tue 24 Aug 2021
Episode Link
https://massforshutins.libsyn.com/minicast-d6-new-vietnam-theme-park

In 1975 a right-wing loon purchased 300 acres of swampland outside Cape Canaveral with the dream of building a theme park recreating the experience of a US Special Forces barracks in a rural Vietnamese hamlet at the height of the war. Visitors could take turns firing a machine gun at real Vietnamese refugees play-acting as Viet Cong, while replica thatched huts dispensed souvenirs and snacks. Oh, and there were punji stakes. Real punji stakes. And a lot of barbed wire.

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