Posted on 11/05/2006 5:00:49 PM PST by Dawnsblood
Fine by me. The Aussies will be helping (I saw dozens of Aussie soldiers/sailors exiting the Saigon Towers office building in full dress when I was there 3 years ago).
And as much as I utterly despise the yokel Communist government, you have to give the Vietnamese people this: from 1954 to 1979++ (one could argue 1991) they waged battle against the French, us Americans, the Khmer Rouge, and the Chinese. More than 25 years of nonstop fighting is nothing to dismiss. They are tough.
"it would be nice to have an ally that has a border with China."
It would be nice to have Haiphong Harbor.
thx for the ping
Vietnam did see combat in Cambodia until 1989.
From ""Journey from the Fall" Director Ham Tran:
"How long will we allow Hollywood to tell their versions about the Vietnam war, where Vietnamese people are faceless, nameless background objects instead of three-dimensional living, breathing people whose lives are directly torn by war? In the last 30 years, the world has never known about the millions of Vietnamese who were imprisoned and tortured in "re-education camps," or the millions of other Vietnamese who fled Vietnam by boat, suffering drought, starvation, rape and pillaging by pirates. No American film has ever been made about these struggles and sacrifices, so the question is "Why not?"Most young American, especially the younger generation (born between 80s up to now), have NO idea how the Vietnamese got here. Somehow, they happened to be here for no apparent reason!!! It's a sad history.
One of the things I do at my church is tell the kids how their parents got here because the parents don't talk about it. The first American-born generation knows they have family in Viet Nam. Their children are even hazy about that. The ones who know where they come from cope better with the snares of being modern American teenagers.
You're a good man. Thanks for doing it.
I checked out the link for Journey from the Fall. Now I must get a DVD or something. Such a movie will never be shown in my part of the country. I emailed the contact address.
problems enough being an American teenager ....
and believe me, from Ireland or VietNam, they are all being brainwashed by others than us, their parents...
best we can do is put our collective 'foots' down and remind them that 'we don't act like that in THIS family'.....
Thank you for mentioning the film. It shall be, for me, a must see. When it is available on DVD, I shall use it in my class.
"Thank you for mentioning the film. It shall be, for me, a must see. When it is available on DVD, I shall use it in my class."Please do. Let me warn you in advance, the movie DOES NOT have a Hollywood type happy ending... It's the reality of war, people get seperated and killed. It's about struggle, family, love and yearning for freedom... It doesn't have "entertainment" value, per se. However, the VN war and the Vietnamese people forever will be part of our history either we like it or not.
2. The largest segment of the population in Vietnam were NOT EVEN ALIVE when the war happened.
Leave your bigotry in the trailer park, please!
BTW: I have folks in my family who were Vietnam combat vets, and NONE of them show the bitterness that you do.
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Thank you for your 'JOURNEY from the FALL' Release update.
Only wish it had been released right after I saw it at its April 30, 2005 West Coast Premiere in Little Saigon CA, commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon.
This real life "PASSION of the CHRIST' Motion Picture should have been seen by all Americans before they went out to vote tomorrow.
The Loss of Freedom was real to the South Vietnamese after we ABANDONED them long ago, and so was their resultant suffering.
Thanks to JOHN KERRY =
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
Quo Vadis now, Iraq?
Quo Vadis now, USA?
Quo Vadis = "Where go you?" in Latin
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"Let me warn you in advance, the movie DOES NOT have a Hollywood type happy ending... "
No need to tell me. I fully expect this because the people of South Vietnam were shafted. From families being divided, to the reeducation camps, to the plundering of the south by the NVA, etc...'twas all a tragedy.
Yes Aloha Ronnie... I wish American see this movie before we go out and VOTE tomorrow so that WE WON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN... American Lefts just do not know what they're talking about war!!! To them, the VN war ended at the Paris Peace Accords... Millions of Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian disappearance became just another footnote of the war. How sad.
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It could all happen again HERE, my friend, thanks to the same people who fooled us into ABANDONING the then Free South Vietnamse to Freedom's threatening Enemy long ago.
If we let it.
So Vote tomorrow like your very life depends on it,
..'cause it does..!!!
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Glad some folks on here remember....so refresh me...why did we lose 50,000 in Vietnam?...it scares me to think of guys that are missing limbs or are burnt over in Iraq...for nothing....i hope not!
yes...i know about the domino theory...didn't happen.
I agree with you and so should anyone that knew anyone that knows a Vietnam Vet. I had three Uncles serve in that war, I am so proud of them! They and you too deserve better then to have this kind of BS thing happen.
This is wrong, completely wroing!
Those dominos fell and went right around to Afghanistan then to the USSR, itself. It was not the envisioned progression, but a progression it was.
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