and Cornell's main plaza is still named Ho Chi Minn Plaza to this day...When are they going to show the “Hanoi Jane” episodes?
and Cornell's main plaza is still named Ho Chi Minn Plaza to this day...Kind of ironic that Jerry Brown, who does everything he can to protect and legitimize the Mexican invasion of his state, was so adamantly opposed to refugees fleeing communist persecution in Vietnam. Funny how these liberals love immigrants unless they happen to be Cubans, East Europeans or South Vietnamese who had fled communist persecution.
One of my nephew's best friend's (who is now a doctor) parents are physicians who landed in Nebraska. What's funny is that when I first met him, I knew nothing about him other than he was Vietnamese. I then found out he was from Nebraska and was an avid pheasant hunter until he went away to medical school........
I think the Vietnamese who were successful in their journey to the US more than made up for the hospitality extended to them in that they all went on to become hard working, productive members of our society......
Been there. Done that. I don’t need Ken Burns to tell me how ugly it was over there or here at home. The “Wall” is reminder enough.
I’ve been watching the series. A lot of upper level politics, which is to be expected. After being rehashed for what?...42 years (yikes!), I’ve seen most of the photos and videos in other presentations.
A little concerned about the body count coverage. I can’t speak to the up the chain exaggeration, but at the direct contact level in a Marine infantry battalion, I can tell you we only reported what we had actually killed. And we killed plenty during the year I was there (1968-1969).
I hope Burns will emphasize how costly winning the war was for Vietnamese men of that generation.
Hard to watch shows like that. Same as Blackhawk down. I turned 18 in November of ‘72. I missed serving but was old enough to see for years before how the Commies in our colleges were subversively using the idiots to sway public opinion. Same thing is happening now. Still pi$$es me off.
Based on the article, the hypocrisy is stunning! Hanoi Jane should be dead!
There is a small memorial outside of San Onofre on Camp Pendleton that is dedicated to the Vietnamese refugees. Many of them lived there on Pendleton in a tent city while being re-located across America. I was a teenager when Vietnam ended and remember quite well the refugees. We had a large Vietnamese family that our Church sponsored. People may not realize but because of that area being French for a long time, not all Vietnamese were Buddhist. Many were Catholics.
I’ve seen a little of the Ken Burns documentary and the part I watched was concentrating on the corruption of the South Vietnamese government. IMO, that was one of the problems with the war. In order to fight a counter insurgency, you have to have a credible partner. When Buddist monks were burning themselves in the streets of Saigon in protest to the government, we should have realized that we did not have a credible partner.
The goals of the war were laudable and it was a worthwhile cause. The left always lampoons the domino theory, but guess what? It actually happened, Cambodia and Laos did turn red and hundreds of thousands died in the Khmer Rouge killing fields of the late 70’s. Thank you for that Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden.
My experience has taught me that the best Americans are usually the ones that have fled Communist persecution and the Vietnamese in this country are no different. It’s funny how all of these type of groups end up being Republicans by and large. Guess that’s why the left doesn’t want them in America.
The blood of thousands is on the heads of those news manipulators that cost us that war. Obama has done far worse than Nixon ever did, yet these same media liars are refusing to so much as peep about the gross violations of the law perpetrated by that corrupt fool Obama.
This nation needs to destroy these media liars, and deprive them of the ability to force false narratives on the American people.
What is wrong with America is one party media liars controlling the news.
Disgusting. They interview only failed American soldiers, weeping about having gone to war. I watched part 1 and that was it for me.
“Future episodes will deal with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973, which paved the way for the victory of the Soviet-backed North Vietnamese Communists in 1975.”
WRONG!
It was the Dems refusing to fulfill our promise to continue to arm the South.
ping
Political cynicism.
Brown knew that those who’d fled communism would be more conservative in their politics once allowed to thrive in relative freedom.
After all, he’d had lots of indoctrination being a commie himself.