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Posted on 03/24/2007 4:59:00 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE
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After appearing in the Sundance & Newport Beach Film Festivals, and being awarded serveral Awards in the process, the ImaginAsian Motion Picture Production .."JOURNEY from the FALL".. finally premieres across America.
This film accurately and sadly shares the horrible human consequences resulting from the 1975 Fall of Saigon. A Fall brought about when a post-WATERGATE Democrat Congress cut off all our funding for the then Free South Vietnamese People to fight for their own Freedom with against Communist invaders.
This just as the Communist Soviet Union gave $6 Billion in military aid, according to uncovered KGB Files, to Communist North Vietnam for its planned 'Final Solution' in the South. Translating into over 600 Soviet tanks and 1,000's of Artillery pieces making their way down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to a quick Victory of the South..
600 tanks is more tanks then Gen. GEORGE PATTON needed to win World War II with in Europe.
In this new time of war, in a new Century, with our own Freedom now directly at stake right here at home...
...what prices are to be paid by the Free after another Democrat Congress cuts off all funding again for the Free to fight for their own Freedom with..?
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965
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.."JORNEY from the FALL".. is a Motion Picture MUST see for all who LOVE Freedom.
For this time around,
...History must NOT be repeated.
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.."JOURNEY from the FALL".. Website
http://www.JourneyfromtheFall.com
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I was intimately involved in the aftermath. I lived and worked in a refugee camp. I sit and re-read letters sent to me by those who passed through the camp.
I am preparing a letter to all the cut and run Ratz.
They will not like it.
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Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
(Pictures from .."JOURNEY from the FALL".. that were posted on the above Freerepublic.com Forum Thread ...4 Months before its 1st Preview ...in Little Saigon, California. Marking the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon)
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I've been waiting to see this. Thank you for letting us know.
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.."JOURNEY from the FALL"..
Little Saigon's Nguoi-Viet Newspaper Photos/Article reporting on the March 21st Westminster, California Premiere & coming Theater Openings on the March 23rd Weekend across America...
http://www.nguoi-viet.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=57412&z=1
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I don't go to movies much, 2 in the last 5 years but I want to see this one. Unfortunately there is little chance that it will ever be in a theater within a hundred miles of here so I have to wait and hope for DVD.
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"JOURNEY from the FALL": VC tried to block this movie
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1669262/posts
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..........3 Heroes of the Battle of IA DRANG-1965...............
..BRUCE CRANDALL = Medal of Honor..
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48215
RICK RESCORLA = Help Honor 911 Lifesaving Hero
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
HAL G. MOORE = The Lessons and Legacy of an American Warrior
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=643879
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Like "The Lost City" which shows the true face of Communism, I'm sure this movie won't even get a second's worth of consideration from the Oscar people.
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The same WALTER CRONKITE who declared our TET Offensive Victory a defeat on National Television...
...later on went to a year 2000 London World Conference to publically call for our 11 Southern States to SECEDE from our Union.
The same WALTER CRONKITE that is pushing hard for HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON to become our next President of the United States.
The same HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON who pushed so hard for Communist North Vietnam's Victory over a then Free South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
The Future is NOW.
Please help spread the word about the "JOURNEY from the FALL" they helped cause.
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.."JOURNEY from the FALL"..
..is a first rate Motion Picture that appeals to a general audience, even though spoken in Vietnamese ..with English subtitles.
It's ..'ABANDONMENT in Time of War'.. Message is that compelling, especially now with our own Freedom directly at stake right here at home.
The stuff that true Art is made of.
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Thank you, Aloha Ronnie, for posting this information.
I hardly ever ping my list of Vietnam veterans, but seem to have more occasions to do so of late, so here goes....:)
See links in posts 2 and 11.
I was an advisor to an ARVN Tank Squadron. The consequences of the Democrat sellout of the Republic of Viet Nam had very human faces. I still remember them.
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MACV, Class of '71
Searching the listings here on the left coast, mainland...it's playing about 50 miles south of me.
Thanks for the ping....what a disgrace then....and it appears that this generation of traitors disguised as congress critters is trying to do the same.
http://www.journeyfromthefall.com/TrailerLarge.aspx(Requires Quicktime Player-takes about 2 minutes for download.)
It is powerful, just a hint of the power of the movie itself, I'm sure.
I was still in the Army as Saigon fell. We were sitting on our duffle bags in Ft. Bragg waiting for orders that never came.
The lady that cuts my hair was one of the 'Boat People,' left Viet Nam when she was 14 and still cringes at memories of what she calls the "bad times."
I have tried to get some Vietnamese refugees to write stories of their escapes, what Viet Nam was like after the fall of Saigon, and relate them to today.
I guess the memories are too painful for them, but theirs is a story that needs told and told now!
Liberals seem to like death and destruction. It’s happening again.
So they do.
It’s happening again.
And so it is.
About 10 years ago or so, I worked with 2 sisters and a brother who were Vietnam refugees. One night, during a break at work, the eldest sister related some hair-raising stories to me.
The children were able to get out of the country but not the parents. They were transported and somehow ended up in the Netherlands, sleeping in a field. They had no money, did not know what to do. I don't recall how they made it finally to America, but they did.
They lived together here in SoCal, and everyone worked at least 2 jobs, maybe 3 in some cases. They were saving for the day they could bring their mother to visit. Travel was still very restricted at that time. They did not want to go back. She did not want to live here.
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VIETNAM VETERANS FOR ACADEMIC REFORM
The University of Kansas Student Auxiliary
The point:
"We know the media lied about Vietnam to further the goals of the leftist anti-war movement. We know Dan Rather and others lied about Bush to help the Democrats in 2004. Is it lying again to further an agenda of defeating the Republicans and getting the U.S. to abandon Iraq?"
excerpt...
Read the article at:http://www.v-v-a-r.org/
"The Americans have broken their promise. They have left us."
(Long Nguyen, South Vietnamese resistance fighter)
for all who LOVE Freedom.
For this time around,
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Same traitors. Just older.
Thanks for the ping 'dita, might have missed it on a weekend. Agree with Biglook, Hawaii will probably boycott the movie. Will be looking.
In Viet Nam you would be surprised at the attitudes of the old VCs you might meet. I heard things like,"Why did you leave us with these people?" " Why did you leave? we couldn't fight you." "I came from a rice village in the north and knew nothing. I fought the evil foreigner for 10 years before I learned I was fighting on the side of the real foreigners against our people." in Viet Nam "Vi Si" (VeeCee) is the universal word for government people.It is spoken with some bitterness. The Vietnamese, like the Koreans, are genetically small businessmen and have a natural affinity for America and Americans.
For a really fine vacation, go to Viet Nam. Take a tour or two then walk about for a few days in one of the smaller cities like Nha Trang or Phan Thiet and talk to anyone who would talk to you. Many have enough English that you can talk. It is all a tremendous ego boost, especially when you realize it is not just hype and the Dollar. When you get away from Sai Gon and the tourist industry you find that the people think America is the Promised Land and Americans are the Reason Why.
My observations about old VCs applies equally well to old NVAs. Old ARVNs and old VCs are sometimes still a little stiff with each other, though.
That was the real surprise to me when I went back in 03. I am going back again in May. There is a high school graduation that I promised to attend. I wish I could afford go back every year or just stay.
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You're going to bring so very much to and from "JOURNEY from the FALL" ..so very much, RaceBannon.
Thank you for being these massively suffering people's first light of hope back in 1981.
Pray for Freedom's return to Vietnam soonest, please.
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Thanks for the ping.
"...the loud-mouths of the Boomer generation..."
Just remember that the majority of the names on that long black wall also belong to Boomers. Many more thousands of us served who were fortunate enough to come home, but all of us left a little something of ourselves behind.
Making blanket statements blaming the baby boom generation for all the ills of the sixties insults and offend a great many fine and patriotic Americans. Please remember, our congress at that time was made up mostly of people of our parents' generation. There is plenty of blame to go around.
Thanks for the ping!
"...which gets so much of its sense of its own moral superiority from its anti-war activities..."
As your sentence continued. Had you said "their sense", I would have understood you to mean just the loudmouthes. By saying "its sense", I took it to mean the whole generation.
You can reserve the right to blame the Pope or Bob Hope for all I care. You just ought to try to make yourself a little more clear. Some of us get a little touchy about stuff like that. I'm one of them.
I see you're from Washington too. The gal (Kim) that cuts my hair on the Eastside is also a refugee from Vietnam. I would like to assume it is the same person, but sad to say I'm sure there are countless people with similar stories. I relate her story whenever some liberal bemoans how "Iraq is just a wortheless war like Vietnam".
After the North took over her Dad was taken down to the police station for questioning. Five years later they were told he was alive and at a re-education camp. The following year they were able to make visits when they could afford it. I think it was nine years total that he spent at the camp.
She remembers getting one small scoop of rice a day. Her older brothers got more because they had to work. Her baby sister died from starvation. She and her mom would spend the days begging.
And the same will happen in Iraq I fear. The hatred of Bush is obvious and similar in scope and style to the hate of Nixon. The Watergate style investigations have begun as I said they would (although obviously more scattered and hoping that SOMETHING will stick at some point or other).
The funding battles for the war are beginning. And just like Vietnam, we will have them on the road to recovery and strength (South Vietnam had some good victories as I recall AFTER we had left), and then we will yank the rug out from underneath them.
The only trouble is, it won't be boat people coming to our shores to work hard at being productive citizens, it will be terrorists working hard to destroy us.
Old men will always re-fight old wars, I guess.
I'm down South in Vancouver. The lady I'm talking about goes by the name 'Kathy,' now. She has 3 sons and I believe 2 daughters. Of the sons, two are in the Military, one been to Iraq and the other studying medicine. The other is still in school as are her daughters.
She also said she saw rapes of small girls and death from starvation in the camps.
I have written both Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, as well as Brian Baird, asking them to meet with and discuss what these refugees went through before they ever cast any vote on withdrawal dates. All I ever received back from either Murray or Baird were simple form letter style emails informing me of their opposition. Cantwell has never replied at all.
If the Democrats succeed, what these people endured will look like child's play with what comes our way afterwards.
No, us "old men" are trying desperately to stop history from repeating itself, but in an even much worse fashion than it did before.
You would do well to seek out some Vietnamese refugees yourself and inquire what they went through after our Democrat led Congress of the time forced us to abandon them in their hour of need.
The only people who can stop that are generally a lot younger than you are and fighting over in Iraq. The war has been so badly mishandled at this point that only the memory of 9/11 and an understanding that leaving is somewhat worse than staying has kept the public in it this long. Even so, it's cost us as Americans the lives of thousands of our best and brightest, about 30-40% of our hardware, and billions of dollars. As conservatives, it's cost us Congress, our party unity, and will likely cost us the 2008 election.
And now, out of context and 40 years after the fact, I'm hearing about the Tet Offensive? What does the Tet Offensive have to do with Iraq? I start hearing about it and about how much all you all hate Walter Cronkite and I can't help but think that your eyes aren't on this war, but on a previous one.
You would do well to seek out some Vietnamese refugees yourself and inquire what they went through after our Democrat led Congress of the time forced us to abandon them in their hour of need.
I'm originally from Minnesota, and took advantage of the opportunity to speak to many Hmong who were veterans of the CIA's war in Laos.
Like I said, history repeating itself.
After their defeat in the Tet of '68 Offensive," reports have stated that General Vo Ngyuen Giap was considering negotiating a surrender. He heard Walter Cronkite's news broadcast that we weren't winning after all and saw the unrest in America. Instead of surrender and ending the fighting, he changed his tactics and started targeting Americans more than he was.
Declassified KGB documents show that even they fed the anti-war left propaganda and lies, convincing them we were losing and committing heinous crimes.
North Vietnamese have now said that the anti-war left were "essential" to their victory.
Looking at today's media and resurgence of anti-war lefties, we see the same thing happening.
That is the history we are trying to stop from repeating itself.
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