The Mandalorian Finale, Vietnam, and Cheetos

Don’t worry — no spoilers

Brett Chrest
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readDec 18, 2020

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Lately, I have been reading some of Henry Kissenger’s memoirs — don’t worry we’ll get to the Mandalorian in a second; I’m setting the mood. Most of them discuss how American Exceptionalism was twisted over time. This bastardization of Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy led us into the morass that was the Vietnam War (seriously, stick with me: Mando…

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Brett Chrest
ILLUMINATION

After 15 years working for the Federal government, I’m a stay-at-home dad trying to figure out why the laundry won’t fold itself. Website: www.brettchrest.com