Posted on 11/19/2004 11:31:42 AM PST by The Shrew
Semper Fi,
TS
TS
Will do and thanx.......
bump!
Man, I see a lot of myself in this. I took a Bluto Fellowship tour of Vietnam in 1968, with many of the same thoughts as this guy. From my perspective things were not as screwed up, but they were headed in that direction. The antiwar faction inside Vietnam was a small minority, but the anti-LBJ faction was approaching 100 percent.
Regards,
TS
Regards,
TS
I lucked out in so many ways. I took my chances by volunteering for the draft. I got into the Signal Corps through good test scores. By pure luck I wound up at Cam Ranh Bay, where Kerry "won" his first purple heart in December, 1968. I was within a few miles of that incident, but didn't hear of anyone being wounded. He would be the only one at that base and time, to the best of my knowledge.
Excellent article!
Give this a read and save a hard copy for your students. This piece contributes greatly to the necessary shift of perspective required in our high schools and universities.
Semper Fi,
TS
You couldn't be more right about that!
Regards,
TS
Regards,
TS
Those who, like me, served in the theater but not in Vietnam itself, might be interested in the Thailand-Laos-Cambodia Brotherhood. It's a veterans organization for those who served in those three countries. Find out more at http://www.tlc-brotherhood.org/.
I attended my first reunion this past fall. For the first time I felt at home. I'm not really at home with the grunts who served in Vietnam. I didn't share their war. Their battles were simply places on a map to me. The TLC guys had been where I'd been. If you served in any of Thailand, Laos or Cambodia, check out the Brotherhood.
January 1968 to January 1969. Things were actually much tougher at home. My college town lost an entire city block to a gas explosion. Four of my college classmates died in a car crash. Cam Ranh was widely regarded as not in the war.
Looking at history, I noticed it was raided in 1972, with casulties in my batallion.
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NEVER FORGET
During the Vietnam War...
JOHN KERRY
JANE FONDA
BILL CLINTON
HILLARY CLINTON
...all agreed with our terrorist enemy HO CHI MINH's Hanoi Radio propaganda lie to the world that...
There Wasn't a Single Communist North Vietnamese Army Soldier Inside a then Free South Vietnam
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1278933/posts
...or was there..?*
*See my last Photo taken November 15,1865 a full 8 miles INSIDE a then Free South Vietnam:
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965, Landing Zone Falcon
(Movie Website)
http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com
(In person IA DRANG-1965 Photos)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set2.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
NEVER FORGET
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Yes it is, because it is the right perspective.
The operation went into the FUBAR category for many reasons. The antiwar movement was the primary instigator, as it is today.
These political view points must be isolated and ignored until after a war, not during one.
But, the intent was indeed noble and many lost their lives trying to achieve it. Many, in my opinion, lost their lives needlessly due to a lack of commitment caused by antiwar advocates in the media and in Europe.
As is the case today.
I cannot allow them to escape the responsibility they have for the deaths of many Americans in wars that did not need to fought.
Iraq, for example, could have been defeated by unanimity in the feckless U.N.
They are responsible as much or perhaps more so than Saddam.
Media like the New Yorker and others are doing the same today as they did during Vietnam.
Extending the conflict and perhaps causing the need for it to begin with.
They need to be brought to judgment, regardless of their freedoms to print what ever they please.
The media in Europe, the U.S and in the Islamic world are as much the enemy of democracy as democracy's supposed protector.
They must be called, demanded to account for what they have done and continue to do.
Thank you for posting this article.
Thank God that I saw it.
Many of us have spent decades praying that those betrayed by the Nam experience would be comforted and find "wholeness" on the issue as early as possible.
Year after year has gone by and now little by little, sometimes only one by one they are being redeemed from the curse placed on them by a conglomerate of the vile, the stupid and the arrogant minions of the evil.
It is positively thrilling to see the triumph of the Swifties in their latest trek to set the record upright.
THat action has broken a dam, thrown down a wall that had protected and sanctified the evil that continually promulgated the destruction.
It is time to praise God and glory in the victory He is giving over the intentional acts of wounding and harm those ravagers wish to inflict. It is time for their intent to be turned back upon them so that they reap what they have sown.
I was heartened to see Joe Scarborough (albeit all his faults) strongly condemning the actions of those in the US that cut off funds to Cambodia and S. Vietnam and allowed so many to be massacred.
I am hoping that the Swift Vets have turned the tide and that truth will be taught the younger people.
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