People are much stupider than you think they are, Jim. I have to give your lady friend credit for at least getting the fact that it was a literary reference, and possibly a negative one.

These are the reasons that I refuse to get clever things when I intend to make a statement. People are too ignorant.

I'll have to admit that I'm not too knowledgeable about Viet Nam, but the US officially left there right around the time I was born, so I don't remember anything about it personally. And, for some reason, it seems harder to learn about recent things than those well in the past. The spin hasn't been finalized, I suppose.