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Vietnam Freedom March

Our goal is to mobilize Vietnamese Americans across the US to come to Washington DC to:

-- Show our unity for Human Rights in Vietnam,
-- Show our gratitude to America for affording us the opportunities of this free country,
-- Pay our tribute to Vietnam Veterans,
-- Celebrate the successful campaign for the recognition of the Vietnamese American Heritage and Freedom Flag,
-- Promote Freedom and Democracy in Vietnam.

Lipscomb’s brilliant analysis and dispelling of the myths as presented by the revisionist regarding the outcome of our involvement in Vietnam is so obvious that it should easily withstand any meaningful challenges.

Nevertheless, I am convinced we will never have much success in presenting a factual account (as has been exhibited by the last generation) through the education system—as the majority who are entrenched and most influential were/are those who opposed the war and continue to impart a skewed and revised interpretation of events—and even if corrected, will take decades before truth can be separated from distortions and falsehoods.

As an aside, I cannot help but wonder how Lipscomb could have overlooked the exceptional contributions of such luminaries as Fonda/Kerry/Kennedy, et. al, in their efforts to end this tragic event, thereby drastically reducing the amount of casualties we [would] have suffered over an extended period of time of our continued involvement—as they are so eager to remind us, of their righteous and selfless conduct which they are convinced (to this day) was instrumental in bringing a quick and “satisfactory” resolution to this conflict? (/sarc)

On a more serious note, I remember this date (30 years ago) vividly, as it was shortly thereafter that (as a Nam Vet) who (was a conservative and an “R” although, having voted in my first eligible election for Johnson, due to a lack of education and knowledge) became so disillusioned and disgusted over the conduct of Ford and others (whose [in]actions basically amounted to the issuance of a “death warrant” for millions) in our government, that I [symbolically] tore up my affiliation with any party and since then, has simply been, an Independent, Conservative, Patriot.

Of the hundred of thousand of South Vietnamese who were thrown in prisons, forced in to “Reeducation Camps,” tortured, executed, or died trying to escape, (and having spent 18 months in country as an Covert Intel Agent and working closely with many Vietnamese) I counted several as close acquaintances and quite a few, as “friends.”

A very black mark on our History and an extremely shameful period which (when whoever is so inclined to characterize our involvement in Iraq—or anywhere else—as yet another “Vietnam) we should not soon forget!