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The True Story Behind an Iconic Vietnam War Photo Was Nearly Erased — Until Now
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| FEB. 19, 2019
| By MICHAEL SHAW
Posted on 02/20/2019 11:16:27 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
That photo is from the Cambodia campaign in 72
To: NTHockey
My old Gunny used to make the best 'Hooch' out of mangoes in
Subic...said he learned it in 'Nam from his old Gunny..lol
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posted on
02/20/2019 12:27:02 PM PST
by
major_gaff
(University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
To: DownInFlames
There was no Cambodia campaign in 1972.
John Kerry? IZZAT you?.................
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posted on
02/20/2019 12:27:41 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: central_va
Back when a 5 pack of smokes were in the ration package... in this case Chesterfields.
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posted on
02/20/2019 12:30:13 PM PST
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: NTHockey
Engineering always had a brew going. Usually under the mains where it was warm and cozy.
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posted on
02/20/2019 12:32:42 PM PST
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: Red Badger
I’m not Kerry and test there was an incursion into Cambodia. We bombed the shite out of it. Ask Nixon. Oh wait he’s dead.
Too much chopper time for me. I should have double checked. My bad.
To: Red Badger
I’m not Kerry and test there was an incursion into Cambodia. We bombed the shite out of it. Ask Nixon. Oh wait he’s dead.
Too much chopper time for me. I should have double checked. My bad.
To: DownInFlames
It was 1970....................
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posted on
02/20/2019 12:41:39 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
It was 1970....................
******************
Correctamundo.
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posted on
02/20/2019 12:51:10 PM PST
by
House Atreides
(Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENT)
To: House Atreides
It’s seared in .......somewhere..................
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posted on
02/20/2019 12:54:25 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
Hue was NOT the battle that turned the tide against the U.S. military in Vietnam.
It was the media’s telling of Hue, and sometimes lying sometimes just getting completely wrong just what Hue meant miliarily. Yes, it was the broadest attack hitherto ever seen by North Vietnam, creating a hue battelfield and loads of killed and wounded. But, at the end of the day, in spite of the damages inflicted on Hue during the battle, it was a large military defeat for the North.
Then, through the American Left and their links in the U.S. media, they manufactured victory for North Vietnam from the jaws of its defeat, convincing the American public “they could not win”. It was a lie.
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posted on
02/20/2019 12:56:06 PM PST
by
Wuli
To: Bell Bouy II
Warrior humor ... keeps men going.
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posted on
02/20/2019 12:58:34 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true. I have no proof, but they're true)
To: Wuli
John Kerry single handedly lost the Vietnam War with his lies before Congress.
His FAKE TESTIMONY convinced the North Vietnamese that they could win if they just hung in for more time....................
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posted on
02/20/2019 1:00:18 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Wuli
Then, through the American Left and their links in the U.S. media That lying sonofabitch Walter Cronkite, for example ...
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posted on
02/20/2019 1:03:52 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
Cambodia was from 1 May and 30 June 1970.
To: Red Badger
Since we are on the subject of Vietnam pics....back in 1977 I knew a guy nick named Jacko. He served in Vietnam. He showed me a Polaroid pic of himself holding the head of a NVC soldier. He was holding the head in his mouth by biting the ear of the head. No BS a true story.
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posted on
02/20/2019 1:26:53 PM PST
by
4yearlurker
("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
To: Bell Bouy II
So you’re saying you were triggered by a simple joke. Calm down. He’s not besmirching your buddies’ names, he’s just making a joke, for God’s sake.
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posted on
02/20/2019 1:29:40 PM PST
by
Future Snake Eater
(Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
To: CMSMC
HIV tests have been SOP for a long time now, even before homosexuals were allowed to serve openly.
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posted on
02/20/2019 1:30:28 PM PST
by
Future Snake Eater
(Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
To: Red Badger
It was 1970....................100% correct
Truth be known, the 199th (Redcatchers)did a minor foray over the border in spring 1968 from Tay Ninh province to blow up a major NVA base camp. The batallion CO even flew in to check it out before we lit the fuzes. All very Hush-hush ya know.
To: Future Snake Eater
Very Simple as are your remarks
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