Land of Underwear

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While getting dressed I noticed the label on my underwear and thought how very odd it is now to think that just a few decades ago the United States engaged in a protracted, destructive war in Vietnam, a land now known primarily as the place where underwear comes from. It seems hard to imagine, these days, going to war with your supplier of underwear. How difficult it must have been for the American soldiers, fighting in the jungle, wearing camouflage and carrying heavy gear, and all without benefit of underwear, supplies of which would presumably have been cut off. I can only assume the term "commando" is somehow derived from this.