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
The left-wing lost Vietnam to the communists.
It was a big day in Harvard Square.
Everybody was running around cheering and honking horns.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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!
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.