http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/vietnamwar/ en-us Sat, 4 Oct 2008 02:16:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097150/posts THE remains of Australia's last missing soldier from the Vietnam War will be repatriated next week. Private David Fisher, of the Special Air Service Regiment, fell from a rope as he was being evacuated from Vietnam by helicopter in September 1969. His remains were found in the Cam My district in August this year. ..... Pte Fisher was the last of the missing army personnel to be found in Vietnam following the recovery of the remains of three others last year. There are still two members of the air force - Flying Officer Michael Herbert and Pilot Officer Robert Carver... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097150/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 02:16:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095381/posts More than 38 years after being recommended for a Bronze Star, a Texas man has received the medal for helping avert a Viet Cong attack in South Vietnam. Jim Greenwalt of Rockwall, Texas, a former U.S. Army sergeant, helped to prevent a surprise attack by Viet Cong, the Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday."I fired at muzzle flashes, sounds, any movement," Greenwalt said, recalling the violence that repelled a Viet Cong attack.Greenwalt's bravery on Jan. 30, 1970, was remembered at a ceremony at Fort Hood, in central Texas, after a paperwork snafu delayed the honor.The U.S. Army has awarded more than... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095381/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 00:46:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095281/posts RUSH: Guess what NBC did last night, NBC Nightly News? They sent a reporter to Hanoi to find McCain's Hanoi Hilton torturer, to see if the torturer would confirm McCain's version of what happened. I am not kidding, ladies and gentlemen. I'm not kidding whatsoever. A new low has been reached. They also claim, by the way, that they've sent people to Chicago to find out about some of the things about Obama, but I'll be damned if I've seen it -- and they didn't uncover anything. We have two sound bites to illustrate this. A portion of the report... Rush Limbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095281/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 22:57:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084390/posts Excerpt... After returning from Cuba, Dohrn and others met with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss antiwar strategy on US campuses. Speaking a few days later at an assembly of revolutionary student movements at Columbia University, Dohrn reported that the Vietnamese communists she met in Budapest were working with US GIs in Saigon, attempting to obtain military information. As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084390/posts#comment Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:40:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074495/posts Click on image for the actual September 2, 2008, front pageAfter seven years of initial eligibility, Joseph Biden was removed from the military draft pool just when it was most likely he would be drafted and sent into the Vietnam War. The American death toll was rising rapidly -- 11,153 in 1967. Thousands more had died since the Tet offensive began in January, 296,000 men ages 19 through 25 would be drafted during 1968, Joseph Biden had run out of college deferments, and he would not be safe until November 20, 1968, his twenty-sixth birthday. During the Democrat Party... 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074495/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:04:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072288/posts DOVER, Del. (AP) | Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072288/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:42:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072046/posts Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager. Additional deferments were granted in roughly 12-month intervals, the last coming in January 1968, shortly before he graduated from law school at Syracuse University Hartford Courant via AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072046/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:09:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071911/posts DOVER, Del. - Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager. In “Promises to Keep,” a memoir that was published last year and became an instant best-seller after he was tapped as Obama’s running mate, Biden never mentions his asthma, recounting an active childhood, work as a lifeguard and football exploits in high school. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071911/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:41:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2071559/posts Thoughts on seeing Apocalypse Now again:It's 1979 and a young Martin Sheen is taking us up that fateful river again. He is our wise and somber Virgil, our guide, our narrator, the ORM (the Only Rational Man) leading us up that labyrinthine river of death and insanity which is our national crucible, our Vietnam War. That great river of no return, that winding thread of dark infuriating lies that will take us further and further into the Heart of Darkness, into the Heart of Darkness of our great national shame and guilt and self-loathing. This was the real secret mission... Radarsite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2071559/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:49:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070964/posts <p>A SEARCH team believes it has found the grave of the last remaining Australian digger unaccounted for after the Vietnam War.</p> <p>Special Air Services Regiment (SASR) soldier Private David Fisher fell from a rope suspended by a helicopter over thick jungle in southern Vietnam in 1969.</p> The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070964/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:31:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064850/posts VIETNAM veteran Ian Fruend attributes the breakdown he suffered six years ago to one thing - it was "because of some of the things I did and saw" in battle. After a harrowing war, the infantryman, who served with 8RAR in Nui Dat, Vietnam, returned to Australia without fanfare, landing in Sydney to find the airport in darkness. There was no one to meet him, or offer support. Seeking solace at nearby Liverpool RSL, he was singled out by an old Digger who, identifying his short hair and bandaged arms as that of a soldier recently returned from Vietnam, spat... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064850/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:55:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063076/posts THE remains of the last missing Digger in Vietnam may have been found. A team of experts is travelling to Vietnam to determine whether the discovered remains are those of SAS Pte David Fisher. Pte Fisher was lost when he fell 30m from a rope during a helicopter mission on September 27, 1969. He was second-in-command of a long-range SAS patrol, which became outnumbered and pursued through dense jungle. An extensive search of the area at the time by an SAS patrol, infantry units and aircraft failed to find any trace of the 23-year-old from Balgowlah Heights, NSW. It was... Sunday Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063076/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:30:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062721/posts ON Wednesday night Harry Smith uncorked two bottles of fine red wine to celebrate the award of gallantry medals to his men for their role in the epic Battle of Long Tan. "The fat lady has finally sung," Smith told The Australian. ..... The main problem with the retrospective awarding of gallantry medals is deciding what point to stop, says historian Michael McKernan, former head of the Australian War Memorial. He warns of possible legal problems with awarding the Victoria Cross of Australia to World War I heroes, for example. ..... McKernan says it remains incomprehensible that 18-year-old Oerlikon gunner... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062721/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:45:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061636/posts FORTY-TWO years after the Battle of Long Tan, Harry Smith's long campaign for due recognition for his men is over. Mr Smith and two fellow officers will get top gallantry awards for the 100-odd men of D Company 6 RAR who on August 18, 1966, fought against 1500 North Vietnamese regular troops and Viet Cong guerillas. This follows approval by the Rudd Government of the main recommendations of an independent review, by a panel of retired senior army officers, of the battle regarded as a classic study in the use of combined arms to defeat a superior enemy. It restores... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061636/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:10:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056532/posts The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that a U.S. serviceman, missing from the Vietnam War, has been identified. He is Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Manuel R. Denton, U.S. Navy, of Kerrville, Texas. He will be buried as part of a group on Thursday in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On Oct. 8, 1963, Denton was one of six men who crewed a UH-34D Choctaw helicopter that was on a search-and-rescue mission. While over Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, the helicopter came under intense enemy ground fire and crashed. There were no survivors. Over the next several... DOD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056532/posts#comment Tue, 5 Aug 2008 00:03:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049639/posts The truth is often overlooked in a sea of lies and mischaracterizations. The truth is not someones opinion or away of looking at something, it is simply the truth. Gen. Giap planned and directed military operations against the French and defeated them in 1954 in the battle of Dien Bien Phu. The NVA under the command of Gen, Giap planned the now famed and offten lied about Tet Offensive against the United States in 1968. In his book Gen. Giap plainly shows that the NVA had few supplies and had been defeated in battle time and time again. The NVA... Wiki.answers.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049639/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:25:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042574/posts There's a war going on, and Army Lt. Col. J. Todd Breasseale has a mission. But it's far removed from the captured Iraqi palace where he was once stationed. He fights his war now from an office on Wilshire Boulevard lined with movie posters chronicling conflicts real and imagined, from "Patton" to "War of the Worlds." Breasseale's desk is piled high with scripts, each marked with his name and stamped "confidential." It's his job to help decide which movies should get Army help. The mission is both harder and more important than it might appear. After the Vietnam War, movies... The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042574/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:52:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037543/posts John McCain has fielded the unlikeliest of endorsements -- from his former captor in the Vietnam War. Tran Trong Duyet, who was in charge of the so-called "Hanoi Hilton" where McCain was imprisoned for more than five years after his plane was shot down in 1967, told the British Broadcasting Corporation that he now considers McCain his "friend" and that if he had the chance he would vote for him for president. "If I were American, I'd vote for John McCain," Duyet, now 75, told the BBC. "I think he'd make a very capable president. He's done so much to... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037543/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:59:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035187/posts Tran Trong Duyet - a sprightly retiree and amateur ballroom dancer - must rank as one of John McCain's more unlikely supporters.Four decades ago, during the Vietnam war, Mr Duyet was in charge of the notorious Hoa Lo prison - the place where Mr McCain says he was brutally beaten and tortured during five-and-a-half years as an American prisoner of war. "McCain is my friend," said 75-year-old Mr Duyet as he feeds the caged birds he now keeps in his garden in this coastal city. "If I was American, I would vote for him." Informal chatsNavy pilot John McCain was... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035187/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:44:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034019/posts The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is Lt. Cmdr. Ralph C. Bisz, U.S. Navy, of Miami Shores, Fla. His funeral arrangements are being set by his family. On Aug. 4, 1967, Bisz took off in an A-4E Skyhawk from the USS Oriskany to bomb an enemy petroleum depot near Haiphong, Vietnam. As he neared the target, his aircraft was struck by an enemy surface-to-air missile... DOD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034019/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:27:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030905/posts HIGHLY decorated war veteran and former head of the defence force General Sir Francis Hassett has died. The Defence Department said last night General Hassett died on Wednesday at the age of 90. "He was a fine man, warrior chief and remarkable servant of the nation," the department said in a statement. The soldier served in three wars and towards the end of a 42-year military career became head of the army and then chief of defence force staff in the 1970s. General Hassett fought in World War II and in Malaya, and is best known for his role in... The Weekend Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030905/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:05:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025535/posts  Of the many personal accounts coming to light about the almost unbelievably cruel treatment accorded American prisoners of war in Vietnam, none is more dramatic than that of Lieut. Commander John S. McCain III — Navy flier, son of the admiral who commanded the war in the Pacific, and a prisoner who came in "for special attention" during 5½ years of captivity in North Vietnam.Now that all acknowledged prisoners are back and a self-imposed seal of silence is off, Commander McCain is free to answer the questions many Americans have asked:What was it really like? How prolonged were the tortures... US News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025535/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 23:14:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021130/posts Have a kind of empty feeling? Sense that something has been missing these last couple of months? Me, too. Campaign 2008 is completing its fifth month, and we haven't had a vicious fight about the Vietnam War yet. Vietnam is the only war in American history never to end. The War of 1812 was contentious, especially in the Northeast, but no presidential election was fought over it beyond 1812. The Mexican War stirred great passions and slopped over into the 1848 election but has hardly been heard of since, except if you are taking a course in 19th-century America. World... RCP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021130/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 19:48:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019596/posts SEVEN Network boss Kerry Stokes will return a Victoria Cross awarded to one of the country's greatest war heroes to the Australian War Memorial. The media mogul and the South Australian Government were yesterday revealed as the mystery bidders of the medal, which sold at auction in Sydney for $488,000. It is the third Victoria Cross Mr Stokes has bought at auction and returned to the War Memorial since 2006, spending almost $2 million to save the pieces of Australia's history from being lost to the public. Carey Badcoe, daughter of Adelaide-born digger Major Peter Badcoe, was happy her father's... The Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019596/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 11:28:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018543/posts A VICTORIA Cross medal from the Vietnam War has sold for $488,000 at auction in Sydney as part of a collection of 12 medals and memorabilia. The medal was awarded to Adelaide-born Major Peter Badcoe for a series of heroic actions during the Vietnam War in 1967. The Victoria Cross, the Commonwealth's highest decoration for gallantry, was sold to an anonymous buyer, but will remain in Sydney, the auctioneer said. Three bidders were in the race to buy the medals, with spirited bidding starting at $300,000 in Bonhams & Goodman's auction house in Double Bay tonight. Bonhams & Goodman chairman... news.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018543/posts#comment Tue, 20 May 2008 10:36:30 GMT