Posted on 04/30/2018 1:07:13 PM PDT by BBell
What I remember the most from that period was that plane crash that killed all those poor orphans trying to escape from Vietnam.
Remembering The Doomed First Flight Of Operation Babylift
https://www.npr.org/2015/04/26/402208267/remembering-the-doomed-first-flight-of-operation-babylift
Yes the C 5 galaxy that went down. I was young but I remember that too. We always paid attention to what was going on in our household. I can’t say the same for my kids but lord I tried.
I remember because I was in the Mediterranean on a US nuclear submarine. My division chief had done 3 tours there on PBR’s. We got the news over the wire. You couldn’t talk to the chief hardly at all. I guess he wondered why he worked so hard for his Purple Hearts.
I remember because I was in the Mediterranean on a US nuclear submarine. My division chief had done 3 tours there on PBR’s. We got the news over the wire. You couldn’t talk to the chief hardly at all. I guess he wondered why he worked so hard for his Purple Hearts.
At the time of the fall of Saigon, I was a college student in L.A. and volunteered for the Red Cross at Camp Pendleton to help the Vietnamese refugees being flown in and housed in tent cities there. I was in a large volunteer meeting at my college when it was announced that the “baby lift” plane had crashed and the children were killed. I remember people starting to cry, especially the women.
If that didn’t make you cry, you weren’t human.
IIRC a good number of those male refugees ultimately volunteered to serve in the US Armed Forces.
That’s Good Immigration!
The left-wing lost Vietnam to the communists.
It was a big day in Harvard Square.
Everybody was running around cheering and honking horns.
Don't forget Cambodia. Ironically, it took the NVA to end Pol Pot's regime.
Dad was stationed at Clark. My mother was in The Philippines helping out with the other end of the baby lift. She never talked about it much.
Dad flew evac missions during the fall. The closest he ever got to combat (as far as I know) was looking down on the city at night and seeing the street fighting. Those old C-130s had no flare launchers so they actually hung out the side doors with cargo straps holding a flare pistol and watching for any smoke trails. Hell of a thing to do for a young man (dad) with babies back home.
I was not home a year yet, after 3 years at U-Tapao Royal Thai Naval Airfield, home of the B-52 base there.
I could not get over how orgasmic on camera Peter Jennings looked. How full of glee and joy that (expletives) bubbled out of the TV. Over 58, 000 of my brethren-in-uniform gave their lives there, and this (expletives) is so happy that ‘the other guy’ is just walking on in, like walking into a pancake house booth that you just left.
Yeah, I remember the day, and forever cursed the newsmedia.
Yep. Left-wingers are the blame for that too. Heck, they loved Pol Pot!
I was at U-Tapao, Khorat, and Tahkli on TDY for six months, in late 1972, early ‘73. KC-135 squadron from Barksdale.
They sure hope that everyone forgets the killing Fields part of the story.
After the Soviet Union fell, I read analysis of the cost to them to prop up, North Vietnam. The money the democratic held congress withheld to South Vietnam was small compared to what USSR was spending.
“....The left-wing lost Vietnam to the communists.....”
Truth to that. The insane libs practically gave it to the commies.
That alone should have been enough to NEVER let an insane lib anywhere near the levers of govt for ANY reason. They should be in an asylum, not Congress.
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