Posted on 04/30/2018 1:07:13 PM PDT by BBell
I was 13. I remember overhearing my dad saying to a friend “my son was born during this war and I was afraid that he would have to fight in it”.
That’s Good Immigration!
The Vietnamese have been wonderful. These are the sorts of people who we want for immigrants. They work hard and prosper.
You left out CBS.
The same class of people who are trying to "Watergate" Trump right now.
My home was in Saigon till it fell, though at the time of the fall I was at school in Manila. I was set to go back to Saigon but received a letter from my father with some plane tickets back to the states stating it was too
I ran all over Saigon and on Than Sa Nhut airbase on a 50cc Honda from my 7 grade to my junior year high school. Fun times.
At the end there were few soldiers, with empty barracks all over the place. MACV compound was all but abandoned.
My father evacuated off the roof of BOQ1 to the USS Hancock. They pushed his helo off into the water to make room for more that were waiting to land.
I saw him getting a plane with other evacuees on TV.
This was the first victory for the CPUSA.
They are still allowed to operate at all levels of FEDGOV, State and Local Governments, the “Press”, and Academia, completely unfettered.
Communists never go away peacefully.
Too dangerous
Walter Cronkite? Yeah, that SOB helped lose the war with his "fake news". All the alphabet news agencies helped to lose that war by providing coverage of only the things they wanted to show.
The "News" media have been the nation's enemy since they started broadcasting on Television, and thanks to Trump, a lot of people have woken up to the fact that they undermine our elections and our governance.
Dear abb,
re: “I was at U-Tapao, Khorat, and Tahkli on TDY for six months, in late 1972, early ‘73. KC-135 squadron from Barksdale.”
I was there, from late 71 to 74. I met the base historian from “Blahville”, as he said it. 635thCSG-SupSqdrn/aug635thSPsq.
Dan Rather with his “reporting”. We know ol’Dan would never lie or misrepresent facts.
It was partly that emotions were heightened as it was, knowing that Vietnam was falling and knowing all those people would be coming in to the camps.
Most of the refugees were very nice. The exception was the high-echelon refugees (generals, senior government officials). They were all housed in their own separate VIP camp. I partly volunteered at the refugee PX tent or whatever its called in the Marines, and those guys could be real jerks when they came in and simply ordered you to give them everything.
One time they had a Marine Corps protocol officer with them. He was dressed in a suit but you could tell he was a Marine because he had a Marine tie and tie bar on. The Vietnamese started being really obnoxious and the volunteers started getting upset. The poor protocol officer who was standing behind them kept on trying to motion to us with his hands to stay calm and he was silently mouthing “just do what they want.”
A lot of the blame for losing the war falls squarely on the shoulder of the Government of South Vietnam, who favored the Catholic minority, and alienated the Buddhist majority of the South.
Met a lady who came with her family in the 80s. She the government gave them $300. Her dad worked 2 jobs to pay it back. He told her America had been good to them so they owed America.
I witnessed numerous C-130 planeloads full of dead ARVN's, (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) landing daily at Tan Son Nhut air base.
I knew it was just a matter of time before the South would fall.
I left in November of that year.
Well I was 27 and I was ashamed of my government. To have let all those brave men die in combat and then give South Vietnam to the communist!
The Army drafted me in 1969. I was,and still am in favor of fighting communism. But I wasn’t keen on the idea of a war that American GIs were not permitted to win. So drafting me was the only way the Army could get me to Vietnam. We were betrayed by our own government.
Military’s hands were tied by the Democrats, and then Nixon got snookered by Kissinger into the “peace” agreement /aka surrender. Had Nixon not been battling Watergate I think he would have pushed to continue air support for the ARVN, which would have made it much more difficult for the NVA to invade. Once Ford took over as President, South Vietnam was doomed.
Heckuva day. Remember it well. A propaganda triumph for world communism, which proved in time, yet again, that communists are the most violent, corrupt, dishonest, and dissembling bunch in the entire history of Planet Earth.
It looks like the same people that ran Korean war.. We weren’t allowed to win. Both wars took over 50,000 American Lives. I was in Vietnam also from May 68 to April 69.. I felt betrayed when we allowed it to fall into the Communist hands. at least we kept South Korea free..
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