Posted on 01/27/2019 5:52:06 PM PST by AbolishCSEU
On Amazon Prime, Ride the Thunder is an excellent movie showing up close and personal the evils of communism as seen through the eyes of many who experienced the Vietnam War.
Great scenes of disgusting Hanoi Jane, Swiftboat Kerry, Donald Sutherland and the radical leftists.
I just added it to my watchlist.
Thank you for the tip!!!
Watching it now.
Also I found a great movie starring the great James Woods called “Promise” which of all his movies Woods considers it his favorite. I was looking for this movie for a long time and lo and behold it’s on Youtube......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3Rkx2JU4o
Woods as you now has all been blacklisted from Hollywood because of his conservative beliefs, was even dropped by his agent last year.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods
Going to watch “Promise” later...thanks for posting it.
Thanks.
Just watched “A Good American” on Netflix
So sad what has become of our country.
http://8putlocker.com/watch/gdV0ZRxD-ride-the-thunder.html
right-click the playing film and choose save as.
bkmk
The gal that has cut my family’s hair for the last 26 years is from Vietnam. Her father was ARVN, and got called down to the police station one day after the war.
Two years later they got a form letter saying that he was in a re-education camp. (So for two years they didn’t know if he was dead or what!)
Another year or two later they got a letter saying they could visit him. I think he spent five years in the camp.
The gal said she and her mom would beg for food. She was jealous of her brothers that would get two balls of rice each day - as they had to have energy to work in the fields. She and her mom only got one ball of rice a day.
Her younger sister got less, and died of starvation.
If you have Amazon Prime you can watch it for free, and with subtitles! (Helpful for my ears and listening to women with foreign accents)
Wow - the opening scene is what happened to our hairdresser’s family!
I’ll assume she isn’t a Democrat.
I would imagine not, but I haven’t asked. Her daughter just completed some fancy college down in California, and will be going into med school. Paying for it herself and scholarships.
Her father survived the camps, and he and her mother live in the USA. The other older VN lady at the shop visits Vietnam once in awhile as she has lots of relatives there still. The younger gal that survived the begging has no desire to return.
I live in Orange County, CA. There is a very large Vietnamese Population in Central and Northern O.C.
I shared an office in a Check Processing Facility in the late 80’s, early 90’s. Most of the Employees there were College Aged Vietnamese Kids. They were hard workers, respectful and very nice Kids.
Their Parents came here with nothing, couldn’t speak the Language but they made sure their Children got an Education. Their Families stuck together and did what they needed to do to make their lives better. Everybody worked, even doing the most menial Jobs and within one generation they were thriving and living the American dream.
Now compare that to other segments of our Native Born Population. The whining, the expectation that someone is responsible for their every desire and the empowering a Political Party where everyone is a Victim who trade their Votes for free stuff.
Must be why I get angry when people say “Vote in your own self interest”. Nope, you either Vote in America’s best interest or you Vote to destroy it. The latter seems to be winning.
Thank God I grew up in a time when People loved their Country and appreciated all that being an American Citizen stood for. Sadly, future Generations will have no idea what America’s existence has meant to the World.
Rant off...
That is a theme in the movie - patriotism. Both for Vietnam and America (by the Vietnamese guy). It is a really good movie I thought. Has numerous old interviews of Hanoi Jane and John Kerry. Playing on a TV in the motel room or bar as the American back home in the states is watching.
It is pretty amazing to watch them lie with such confidence to push their beliefs. Not unlike many things in the media and society today. Just outright, blatant lies to push their agenda - and the innocents die because of it.
Watching it now. Outstanding movie!
Semper Fi! God bless you, Col. Ripley.
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