[conshack]

"I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas.

Has anybody picked up on the fact that Vietnam and Cambodia are primarily Buddhist's and Christmas is just another day for them? Celebrating Christmas huh?

[gilliam]

There are a lot of Christian South Vietnamese

[perfect stranger]

bump

[Bernard]

As I recall, the Diem family was Catholic. There were statements that President Kennedy increased US support for the Diem regime for this reason. Can anybody verify or correct my memory on this?