That said, I think it revisionist history to suggest that America “lost in Vietnam.” Certainly, the Communist North eventually took over the South, but America’s military never lost a single major battle there and had left under an agreement with the North long before the communists successfully took the South. The South Vietnamese could no longer hold on after a Democratic Congress, in the wake of Nixon’s resignation, reneged on agreements to help fund South Vietnam’s military struggle. How this got to be a loss by America’s military baffles me.
And further, statistics do not bear out the oft-repeated suggestion that Vietnam veterans had bigger problems re-socializing into the American mainstream. All combat veterans have problems along those lines at some level, but Vietnam veterans suffered no more than more appreciated veterans of either the World Wars or subsequent engagements in the Persian Gulf. The suggestions that they did is just another pile of leftist BS meant to discredit the soldiers that this same left sent to the other side of the world in the service of their country.
I don’t hate the North Vietnamese, never did and never even came close, they were a worthy adversary. But, I come pretty close to hating the American left and I get closer every time they spit again on Vietnam war veterans.
The commies, hippies, are the ones stuck in the past.