Today marks the ending of the Vietnam war!
The fall of Saigon from the rooftop of the US Embassy!
Which left so many unanswered questions, wounded, dismembered, killed and displaced peoples!
The Generation who lived, fought, died, and protested against it has left us nothing of value but monetary wealth for a few transnational arms Corporations and their wealthy owners!
We as a people have have not changed!
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Well, after I graduated from college, I volunteered to go. Family tradition and all that. I had a pretty good time. Only got shot once.... GO CAV!!!!
bigpawbullets
Level 9
May 1, 2018
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The movement failed under the weight of the human condition, as all do.
Slappy_Longarms
Level 7
Apr 30, 2018
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I remember that war. I remember being in school and asked by the history teacher what I thought about the war. I said we shouldn't be there. I got kicked out of class. I only lost one friend but many friends came back changed forever. And it happens again and again. As long as there are greedy, immoral people leading the country it will continue to happen.
AmelieMatisse
Level 8
Apr 30, 2018
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For the people of Laos the legacy of the war remains. During the undeclared war on Laos, the US airforce dropped more ordinance in tan was dropped on Europe during WW2. Children are still getting maimed and killed from unexploded bomblets designed for that very reason to make it impossible for people to walk across the land. The US has continually failed to provide adequate compensation to Laos.
chazwin
Level 6
Apr 30, 2018
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You can make a good argument that yes we did change, for the worse. Kissinger said that countries don't have friends, they have interests. We've now got chicken hawk warmongers all up and down this current excuse for an administration, and they've got interests all right, all related to profiteerng and post colonial exploitation.
zeuser
Level 9
Apr 30, 2018
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@MissKathleen you are very gracious. @TheInterlooper I believe a lot of the current political impotence derives from trying to figure out who is to blame, or more to blame, for people screwing over those who cannot effectively respond. That is thinking about the problem. We ought to focus on the solution. I'm not trying to be glib, but I believe that shifting the emphasis of how we consider our own plight can lead to some progress. Call me crazy....
And now Viet Nam is a tourist destination. I toured the Cu Chi tunnels a few years ago. They had much to do with the US defeat because they made it easy for the North to bring in materials and people. I think that's the most important thing for people to see when they visit.
mtnhome
Level 7
Apr 30, 2018
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It was stated that the tunnels ranged fro Chu Chi under the Hobo woods, and the Michelin rubber plantations all to the way Long Bin , Bein Hoa on to Saigon! The tunnels had mess halls, hospitals clinics, barracks, and cat houses. Right underneath us!
@of-the-mountain Yup... you can see it all at Cu Chi, with all the demonstrations of the booby-trapped tunnels and how they built them. At night they'd use the new bomb craters to deposit the new tunnel diggings. It's very hard to defeat a determined enemy defending their own lands and on their own turf. We had , bombs, planes, and lots of young draftees, but they had the balls to stick with it until we were truly defeated. What did we learn? Nothing, far as I can tell. Our "elected leaders" still start wars as distractions and to compare penis size.
@mtnhome:
The birthrate of the North was so high that it would have taking another 30 years to slow the flow of fighting age men from the north to the south!
It was a stupid war of attrition, disguised as genocide!
war is always a waste,its always fought to earn something for the elites.
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Apr 30, 2018
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