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The U.S. was fighting the Viet Cong. The military shortened that to VC, which in the military phonetic alphabet is ‘Victor Charlie’. This was then shortened further to Charlie.
Boo! Too straight forward and concise. Where’s the conspiracy theories?!
How about: the Viet Cong were financed in part by the Peoples Republic of China. To the racist white boys of the American army, any Chinaman (and any other Asian bc they all look alike) was “Charlie Chan.”
No basis in fact, just pulled it outta my ass.
what till you hear about why they used Charlie instead of some other word for ‘C’.
Still waiting . . . When do you plan to tell us?
Yes, but I will accept nothing less than a paragraph-long rant with no punctuation.
Charlie knows what he did.
