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- News clips of my tour in Vietnam. Skull on PC, Firefight on Rt9 'Ambush Alley', FSB C-2 Rocket attack on bunker May 21, 1971 - 30 KIA, 29 WIA, Montagnard refugees fleeing Laos to escape being beheaded unless they joined the enemy.
Lom Son 719 / Dewey Canyon II
The Combat After Action Report reflects US casualties at 109 KIA, 650 WIA, and 5 MIA. We lost 62 tanks, APCs, and other vehicles and, as stated above, over 100 (probably understated) helicopters and an additional 603 shot up and damaged. The guys flying the ARVN in and out deserve the utmost respect as many were shot down numerous times in the same day and suffered very heavy casualties. This was conventional war! The NVA, 60,000 strong outnumbered the good guys 3:1 and employed Russian and Chinese Communist tanks, heavy artillery, and radar guided antiaircraft guns. I was at the border when the ARVNs retreated back to Vietnam. They got their asses kicked contrary to what our President touted. He said the operation was “A great success and that Vietnamization was working” … What BS… We pulled the plug and turned our backs on the Vietnamese people and Saigon fell in 1975. The South Vietnamese did not stand a chance without US air support. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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I served two tours of duty in Vietnam, 1970 and 1971. I was a crew chief on a Military Police V-100 Commando Car. We escorted the convoys going down route 9 carrying troops and Ammunition. This battle was called Lam Son 719. It was the largest battle in the Vietnam War. My vehicle was hit by an RPG. The battle was a disaster . The ARVN forces were vastly outnumbered. The battle was very poorly planned.
Yes, Contrary to what the White House touted the ARVNs got their butts kicked. Nixon had to put on a game face for the public to prove his Vietnamization plan was working when it was, in fact, a disaster. His "Peace with dignity" was all BS! The following spring Easter Offensive in 1972 followed by the fall of Saigon in 75 showed the world the US would not honor commitments to the Government of South Vietnam. Then, we did the same thing only worse in Afghanistan. All the lives lost and for what?
I believe most of the Marines pulled out in 1971
@@IAR823DC In reality we did kick their ass Our Government wouldn't let us win Fact We killed more of the enemy than they killed our Troops regardless we should of never went there to begin with
You can tell our troops were not being taken care of They were worn by combat They wanted to come home Moral was low also They treated our troops in Vietnam like trash and I think to this day we owe them a lot
those ARVNs should not have been put in that situation....good troops wasted
I WAS AT CAMP EVANS , WITH THE 101st AIRBORNE HHC 3rdBDE SCOUT PLATOON , WHEN LAM SON 719 WAS LAUNCHED. I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY HELICOPTERS AT ONE PLACE IN MY LIFE. THE DAY OF THE INVASION MY UNIT WAS SENT TO THE AREA OF KHE SAN ...WE WORKED ( PATROLED ) RT 9 , THE ROCK PILE , AND KAJIO BRIDGE AREAS...LOST 2 OF OUR SQUAD ( WIA) IN FIRE FIGHTS...I MADE IN HOME IN JULY 71...GODBLESS ALL THOSE GUYS , ONE AND ALL..!
Edward, Thanks for response! We were there at the same time. I operated out of Lang Vei, west of Khe Sanh on QL9 with 1/1st Cav Americal. We worked north of QL9 between Hil 881N to the Laos border. When I came home I became a pilot and joined up with the Army Guard, 107th Cav. out of Akron/Canton CAK, Ohio. We flew the Hunter Killer mission in the states with OH58s and C mod Huey gunships. I was in the scouts with the 58s. Very enjoyable but we had no one shooting at us. Just NOE flying like Boy Scouts with big toys. I have a good Guard friend that flew Scouts during Lom Son 719 with C Troop 2/17th. Dave Klase... He was shot down twice and got a ticket home on the second incident when his OH-6 took 57 hits and he was hit in the legs. Thanks for your service my friend!!
@IAR823DC DAN , thanx for your response , and your dedicated service to our country...WELCOME HOME BROTHER...something we ( VIETNAM VETS ) didn't receive from the country when we returned...🇺🇸🇺🇲❤️
We've probably seen each other in passing. I was based at Quang Tri Combat Base, 17 miles north of Camp Evans. I went to Evans several times. We had a sister unit in Phu Bai. During Lam Son 719 we got hit by an RPG. We were on highway 9 between Camp Carol and the Rock Pile. We had two guys wounded, but they both made it.
@Patrick-sb2sb ....and I went to an airfield at QUAN TRI once during an airlift , the helicopter stopped for fuel and we got to go to a mess hall for a hot meal....then we flew out to the OLD FRECNH FORT in the ASHE VALLEY...glad you made it home brother...!
@@EdwardKelly-vi9sg when you stopped at the airport at Quang Tri Combat Base, MY hooch was right across the road. Charlie Company, 504th Military Police Brigade.
When I served in 'Nam in 1969, I remember seeing a CBS camera set up several yards away and filming for awhile. I never have been able to find the footage anywhere. I remember a Cobra Gunship being shot down in the jungle about a mile or two from our position. We were radioed to give support cover fire until rescue could get there.
I'd like to wish every soldier who has fought for my freedom a merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 and a safe and healthy new year!..from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 🤠
The weren't fighting for your freedom. They were fighting to protect their lives, and the guy beside them.
@kdolo100 my freedom was a byproduct of those men who were protecting the guy's to there left and right!..from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 👋🤠
I agree now. The mantra was to "Halt the flow of Communist Aggression" The Domino Theory... If we allow South Vietnam to fall then the rest of the world will be cast into Communism. We vacate in 1975 ant the North takes over the entire country. I believe Vietnam is probably better today than ever in its long history of war.
They fought to delay communism. They lost and communism really helped the Vietnamese people evolve into the economic powerhouse they are today. We were wrong to try to prevent them from governing themselves as they saw fit.
The anti communist movement has killed more people than the Nazis
FREEDOM ???? Are you toally insane man ????
What a dream team of Journalism. No news organizations of today can even tie these guys shoes.
LOL that's some good sarcasm...
Thanks I try! Walter Cronkite had more Truth and Intergary in his left pinky finger than all of msnbc, Clinton Network news and I hate to say it but Fox News combined. There is no no one in media today that has any back bone or balls including integrity any more. JMO
bla bla bla....google capitalism....jus an idea.....so many stupid people here
I believe CBS and Dan Rather have been the ballsiest group of reporters I've ever witnessed. Dan and cameraman in a firefight. Wow!!!
They were also the luckiest to ever live. The body count of cameramen/women news reporters is HIGH!!
I was 12 years old. My Uncle Vincent de La Garza was an MP and went to Vietnam in 1969. He stopped by our home in Seabrook Maryland . He told us upon house return he had been involved running supply trains into Cambodia. He glad already served in WW2 and Korea.
Late March 1971 I was at Da Nang about to rotate when Lam Son 719 was going on, the C-130 Hercules were running almost constantly from Da Nang, we were under high alert for an over run of our base, and had a lot of rockets slammed into our base.
Hey Larry, good to hear from you. I must have missed your comment on the TH-cam video but yeah that was a big operation. We were out there for 67 days straight. Trust all is well and that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
I was there 68-69. It worked so well in Vietnam they thought they’d try it in Afghanistan.
I like your sense of truthful humor. But you forgot little excursions into Lebanon, Somalia and Iraq.
. . . with the same result ! ( Sgt, Marines, 71 )
Preach it, brother.
I had dated a couple of air force in 1968, while we were all attending the Defense Information School/Broadcast Specialist School, which was then at Ft Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Both of them served a tour in Thailand during the time this broadcast was made, at "secret" air force bases, where the US was flying combat missions over Laos. Both men had kept in touch with me and we corresponded until after we had gotten out of the military and gone back to a more normal life. Both of them worked as DJs with Armed Forces Radio Network, much like Robin Williams, in Good Morning, Vietnam. It was a very interesting time to be alive and to be in the middle of some of the action that was seriously affecting the world.
I was in Vietnam in 71, Vietnamization...(in the Vietnam War) the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam was just getting underway. Many Combat Units had already rotated out. Was hoping the worst was over but I can testify there was still a war going on in 1971... broke my heart when Saigon fell in 75.
I was a grunt in Vietnam 1971. We were still in combat. 196th Inf Bde. We pulled security along Hwy 9
can not hear white xmas anymore w/o stomach churning or turning
Agree!!!
Us policy 🤣 the Vietcong kicked your azz. That’s called surrender , and get the f out of our country
yea i was up north in phu bi in the 101 and they went home in august 1972 and i went down to danang seemed everyone was moveing south
Vietnam veteran January 1970 to February 1971
Thank And Appreciate Your Service To Keep Us Free!
Thank you.. unfortunately I do not see fighting for and preserving our freedom as a reality outcome of the war. We were all pawns in a political and economic game so when the US pulled the plug and South Vietnam fell in 1975 all the sacrifices and countless lives were for not. I have struggled to name a single positive outcome of that war in the last 53 plus years to no avail. I have asked that question many times but have yet to hear a solid response. Such a waste...
@@IAR823DC one of the worst and stupidest and corrupt chapters in World History.
GLAD YOU MADE HOME BROTHER...
I'm a veitna😮veteran in veitnam in 1970 and 71 with 3/17 th air car
Recall reading McNamara's book In Retrospect which said our biggest mistake was not knowing Vietnamese culture or their history of surviving invasion by hostile forces. We applied a simplistic Cold War anti Communist model to a complex civil war in Vietnam which had plenty of its own issues with China. It was an ill conceived war which could never have the result we thought we wanted.
I was 10 years old back then. It was as I remember an eternal sunny day for me. Vietnam was always in the evening news. So long ago now.
I was 10 as well , who didn't want to be a JET FIGHTER PILOT , it all looked pretty exciting to me , but what did I know I was 10 and when we played Vietnam War we always won.
Me too, 10 in 71. I remember Walter Cronkite on the evening news too. Old enough to know Vietnam was a scary place.
Also remember going to Letterman Army Hospital here in San Francisco and seeing young soldiers in wheelchairs with shiny colored
prosthetic legs! Freaked me out! Still remember that to this day obviously.
If you were of draft age it was a bitch on steroids watching this shit every night!
I think many American need read about what US President Franklin D. Roosevelt think about the French colonial rule over Vietnam and Vietnam Independent. And when did President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent US military personnel to Vietnam one year after the Japanese army attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. All those Vietminh soldiers were once America allies against the Japanese army of WWII
God bless our Vietnam vets.we owe them so much
Back when the media and the government told you what they wanted you to hear. Oh so nothing's really changed LOL. I'm a veteran also. Glad I served, but as the years go by I have to question the value of that service other than to help keep my fellow veterans alive
Looking back at this time through the lens of 2022, it sure seems a total, absolute waste...
@@jeffsmith2022 agree... it's going to take a miracle to turn this country back around
Don't compare the Media of then with the Media of today. From what I have picked up over the last 50 years since the war...it was the Military who was telling us what THEY wanted us to hear. I am a proud Vietnam/Draft resistor. I got enough accurate information from the Media to make the right decision.
Every war we have fought in has been an absolute waste of time, money, and people except for the Revolutionary War, and WWII.@@jeffsmith2022
Sure thing mate. Bloody minded Govt and top brass running on ego . Typically the troops are just numbers . I’m just glad Vietnam has survived and moved on as a country. Cheers.😊
That 54K figure for Korean War US deaths isn't correct. "The casualty toll had been reported as 54,246 until June 2000, when the Pentagon acknowledged that a clerical error had included deaths outside the Korean War theater in the total." It actually was 36,574.
And that was only in 3 years. War sucks.
Plus 3000 deaths in prison camps, out of 7000 US troops captured by North Korean and Chinese forces.
China was a rural country back then, yet confronted an industrial power, the USA, in support of its North Korean ally.
What are Pentagon panties doing? Terrified of Russia, in spite of wielding NATO's superior firepower, they chickened out in Ukraine.
Just like US aggression was fought to a standstill in Korea by the Chinese, Russian aggression in Ukraine would have had the same outcome, had those panties had the b@ll$ to confront Russia!
If you want to read a good book about this battle it's called "Into Laos" by Kieth William Nolan. He wrote several books about battles in the Vietnam War...they are incredible. "Ripcord" is another gem by him.
Yes, I agree. Into Laos was an extremely accurate depiction of that operation. I spoke to Keith Nolan about the book and told him I had many pictures of the events he described in it. He was excited and wanted to get together to go over them. Sadly, he passed before we could meet. He was much younger than I but had a great passion for accuracy. I regret not being able to meet with him. Lesson learned!
@@IAR823DC It was very sad when he passed from cancer...way to young. I am also sad for you not to have met him...he was a very gifted writer. You must have been there...who did you serve with? I am a humble former Cold War Canadian INF vet. We did train with US forces and some of the Senior NCOs were Vietnam vets. They told us a few stories about the war when we were in the field...they did not tell many and told them quietly...they were 101ABN.
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I was with the 1/5th Info Div. We operated out of the old special forces camp at Lang Vei between Khe Sanh and the Laotian border. We were in the bush for about 67 days. If you read Nolan's book you got a good feel for the intensity of the operation. The ARVN were severely defeated in Laos, and the US sustained heavy losses without crossing the border. The president touted the operation as a major victory for Vietnamization but that was just pure BS!
@@IAR823DC My God...incredible. I am familiar with the geography..the "Hill Fights "881N..etc"..."...the capitulation of Lang Vei. It is an honour to communicate with you. I am not sure what the1/5th Info Div is? I know that Lang Vei was defended by indigenous troops and SF. I assume you were not in a conventional line unit... 67 days in the bush! Nolans book outlined the ARVN as a disaster in LAOS desperate to get out...complete chaos. I have also listened to helicopter lift and gunship comms during the operation...truly frightening. My respects to you and thank you from Canada.
@@greasyflight6609 Thanks to you for your service as well. It is a shame that no one has elected to make a movie about Lom Son 719/Dewey Canyon II as, in my opinion, that was one of the most significant operations of the war. We were battling over 60,000 NVA enemy troops using conventional Russian and Chinese Communist weapons. The only difference was air lift support and Tac Air. The ARVN were outnumbered more than 3:1. This was a turning point in the war for sure followed by the Easter Offensive and ultimately the fall of Saigon in 1975. We pulled the plug on South Vietnam and abandoned all of our loyal supporters allowing them to be captured, killed or repatriated by the NVA. We repeated the same thing in Afghanistan... What a waste of lives on all sides. Our government at its best sorry to say.
Did Lt. Fitzgibbons make it home?? A tough time to be there by 1971. So much respect for these veterans.
I believe he did as he was quoted in Keith Nolan's book Into Laos, a great book accurately depicting the operation. The last time I saw him was on QL-9 just east of the Laotian border (Ambush Alley) during the Steve Bell interview in the ABC video. I believe he was the Platoon leader for the 40MM Dusters.
@@IAR823DCthank you sir and thank you for what you did for our country!! I was guardian on an Honor Flight out of Cincinnati April 19’. It was my total pleasure to be amongst such great people!!
Two Cav Troops of 1st Squadron, 1st Armored Cav (Sheridans) mutinied. They were taking exceptionally long to move so the CG sent a LTC there to find out the problem. The problem was they were not going in with thier, then current, leadership. They also considered it a suicide mission. Sure they were not coming out. It wasn't a total mutiny, the NCO's didn't mutiny. They went after everything was organized and prepped. Some interviews were done and they told the Press they weren't going in because they knew they were going to be killed. You can also read the writeup about the incident in the book, the title is just Lam Son 719. I read it in 1984, some of my fellow NCO's were there, one of them gave me the book. Another showed me photos of him in the hospital with casts on both arms and bullet holes patched up. Their Hughey was shot down. One of many.
yes, I was assigned, as demo support, to work with 1/1 cav. We operated from the old Special Forces camp at Lang Vei mainly to ther north along the border. I remember this incident very well. General Hill, 1/5th ID Commander came out and released Cpt Prodada (sp??) of his command and told everyone they could be shot. I have a Stars and Stripes news article of this incident.
What we have learned and more everyday is home game is a very important factor where the one enjoys this advantage knows the area well, can maneuver, mass its troops and logistics as desired. The battle of Kyiv where the much weaker Ukraine defeated the powerful Russians reinforces this lesson.
Let me just say this: Vanderbilt has PLENTY of fund$ to keep the television archive afloat.
That's great news! It's just too bad everything was saved in black and white. I imagine the original footage was in color. Hopefully everything will be digitized and preserved for history.
Turned on CC and the story is readable.
Wow our Politicians just neglecting our troops in Vietnam in 1971 they look horrible
That sounded like Dewey Canyon Lam Son 719...
Actually Dewey Canyon II for the American Troops... Lom Son 719 for the ARVNS. Dewey Canyon I took place Jan-Mar 1969
@1AR825DC - Lam Son 719 was the ARVN invasion of Laos. U.S. troops weren't allowed to cross the border of Laos ,EXCEPT for the air crews that transported them there. I was there.
REDSKINS Company D (Atk Hel), 158th Aviation Battalion (Aslt Hel), 101st Airborne Division (Ambl) RVN 1971 Camp Evans
I volunteered as door gunner for two missions and as front seat gunner in a Cobra.
Man in the front seat and in the door. Never forget.
I knew men who had flown dust off and medics who flew with them. And some of the stories they told me about what they had seen and experienced on some of those dust off flights. Some of those stories confirm part of what Kerry had stated in his statements about war crimes by US troops. One of my closest friends told me about flying dust off with wounded POWs in which military intelligence would go on the flights. He told me that he had been told by them to inject air into the veins of the POWs in order to make the other POWs talk. When he refused to murder the POWs they started tossing them out of the helicopters until they had killed all but the last one; We were friends for years after we both got out of the Army, and he had seriously bad PTSD from what he had seen.
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Lt Heimback showed true character and decency towards those Bru's. He did it right!
Absolutely.. It was just a stroke of luck that he was there at that precise time.
Can you please put some more from vietnam
How could any American soldier be expected to fight in Vietnam in 1971? Everyone one knew it was lost a lost cause by then. We where shipping troops back home already. Just ridiculous!
There were a lot of small mutinies all in-country. American forces refusing to go out on ambush, or get haircuts and shaves. Drug usage was prevalent. If they did go out they mostly sand bagged it just outside the wire. But, can anybody really blame them? By 1970/71, they all knew it was a lost cause and nothing would be accomplished by these useless firefights. You'd be risking your life for nothing.
That is Vietnams problem. My issue is bypasses the issue of the thousands of g.I.s who were in combat there who were killed or wounded, maimed for life and lives destroyed. This country was a mortal enemy of ours. These people making these kinds of decisions to aid Vietnam lessens the sacrifices that we made. We were ignored when we came back and have been for 50 years. That war is as real to us today as it was then. These has been politicians were not in combat there. Thus they have no understanding these issues. Nothing personal, these people as yourself were not in combat there thus you can never understand this critical issue. James jones-vietnam combat vet-u s army Vietnam-March 16, 1968 to may 30, 1970.
The US firepower killed way more than NLF guerillas or the North. 3 million vs < 60,000.
Young men being sacrificed for talking heads that’ll never be on the frontline 😢
You are absolutely correct.
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That guy with the old U.S. Army Cavalry hat is who Robert Duval patterned his character after in "Apocalypse Now". I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
I believe narrator is Chris Schenkle. A native Hooiser.
Jed Duval and Steve Bell were the reporters with us on the ground. There was another guy, can't recall his name, but all NBC,CBS, and ABC were represented. Big news at 6:00 every evening!
@ 10:34 My guy is literally in the middle of a fire fight no helmet no flack jacket in a open vehicle giving you the news, this man’s buck must of hurt a lot from toting his massive balls around,damn back when journalists were literally throwing it out there to get news
For sure... we had two journalists riding with us. Everyone was pretty exposed perched on top of our apc's tanks and dusters. I was the TC behind a 50 cal on the APC with a skull on it and remember it like it was yesterday. BTW... That film coverage of our APC with the skull triggered a war crime investigation from the White House. Some real BS!
I agree. I miss the days when the war was reported on during the fight.
War and all its horrors should be seen by everyone.
I was 10 years old watching this on the nightly news when this aired.
@@IAR823DC I was wondering if that skull being on the news would cause you any trouble. I'm glad everything went ok with that. I see no problem with it myself. People just don't understand war. I'm 6 years prior service - Army National Guard Field Artillery. Thank you sir for all you did.
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William Westmoreland was ordered to launch a war crime investigation.
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After they figured out who we were but tracking down the number on our APC. We were charged with and I quote taking an enemy soldier, decapitating him and peeling the meat from his skull and a fixing it on our PC as a war trophy . I was able to get a copy of the depositions from the national archives in Washington DC. I did not know that we were acquitted and heard nothing on the outcome for over 25 years.
With the current insanity of these policy makers, I would not be surprised if our government started furnishing North Korea with modern military equipment to put Russia in a squeeze. Of course this would erase the 36,000 g.I.s killed in the Korean War. Our governments strategy would be to forget these sacrifices as no one probably remembers these casualties as people in todays world don’t remember it anyway. These people in power today have never laid on a battlefield at 2 o’clock in the morning and not knowing if you were going to live another minute. Knowing that anyone that pops out of that tree line, man, woman or child, you are going to kill them. These matters stay with you the rest of your life. I was the one laying on that battlefield. James jones, Vietnam combat vet, 1968-1970.
I personally don't know you . But I wood like to say thank you for give up your youth . Welcome home . God bless you . Vietnam veterans are my hero.. you guys have it your all for what you believe to be right for our lie government.
The Vietcong kicked they azz all the way home. The murderers.
Really? My heroes are the real men who stood up to their Government when it was wrong and faced potential consequences. The US did NOT belong there. It was the resistors that helped hasten the end of the war and saved lives. You've got the definition of "hero" ass-backward.
Lawrence in N.I. my uncle drove PIGS there
THE WAR HOME 54 YEARS THE BROTHERS A COUNTY
4:32 Robert died later in his tour when his vehicle hit a mine.
Wow poor guy
@@Roscoe.P.Coldchain Yes, I researched him and he was selective service (a draftee) so no wonder he viewed things the way he did and didn't want to see unnecessary deaths. I can't imagine being pulled out of civilian life sent to an army camp to be shouted at and brutalised and then given a gun and dumped in the middle of a stinking humid jungle while all about you are men with automatic weapons who desperately want to kill you.
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..american planners and as arvn troops is a crazy mix
Yes.. poor communications and planning. Also, with no American FO or FAC, in Laos, artillery and air support was lacking good coordination. There was a BIG language breakdown and the ARVN did not trust their own indirect fire enough to call in close support. This was the the first time the ARVN had to rely on themselves to get it done and they found out it did not work out without US interaction. It was very apparent that Vietnamization failed but the President declared a great victory and lied to the American people to save face.
I am still trying to learn or understand what happened
Costly Southern Vietnam labor was replaced by cheap Northern Vietnam labor. US Military was involved to make some noise to distract attention.
What happened was , usa invaded Vietnam illegally , murdered many women and children , and then the Vietcong kicked they azz, won the war and united the country. As that’s all the Vietcong wanted in the first place,a united country. USA tried to mess it up like Korea.
@@leonleon2276 Without US assistance, Vietcong would have been defeated by the South.
@@achatcueilleur5746 so the USA weakened the south. Interesting
@@leonleon2276 USA didn't weaken South Vietnam but eliminated it entirely.
5:25 soldier’s revolt. Just like in the book, of the same name.
Fighting a lost cause
Think you can't lie your way to military victory which also didn't work in Irac...
Oct.25 2022 Post main covid epidemic
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Was in country 71 72 total crap show
God bless you my friend x
Bless you and your people. Sad all this has fallen on you.
thanks god, we have ukraine !
America created the Vietnam War. Because all those North Vietnamese leader were called Vietminh train by US military personnel sent by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt against the Japanese army of WWII. And US Democrats Truman sent US MAAG military personnel in 1950 which train the 1st South Vietnamese army.
All those 1st North Vietnamese leaders and Vietminh was once US allies against the Japanese army of War II. One year after the Japenese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent US military personel to Vietnam. They help train the 1st Vietminh how use assault rifle, gernade, and how to build booby trap against the Japanese army. Those 1st Vietminh help save several US pilots who plane was shot down by the Japanese army. President Franklin D Roosevelt recognize Vietnam independence from France. But his Vice President Truman didn't. US Democrats President Truman reject Vietnam letter of support for Vietnam Independence from France and support France to re-colonize Vietnam as their colony. This cause Ho Chi Minh to ask the communist Soviet Union for support for Vietnam Independence from France. This is why Vietnam became a communist country today. US Democrats President Truman, JF Kennedy, and LB Johnson made sure Vietnam is America business. Why they had South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother killed and appointed their puppet ex-Vietminh soldiers, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as President of South Vietnam. From US President Truman, JF Kennedy, and LB Johnson were all WWI and WWII veteran. Their wamonger caused 58,000 US dead in Vietnam War. Then Jimmy Carter in the Middle east and George Bush Jr in the invasion of Iraq. They too were US veteran too who became President of United States.
Today, we need to learn from our mistakes and be sure not to repeat them. Just like slavery, that was wrong and it has taken a civil war and many years to abolish and we are still working on on the affects many decades later. Do you believe Vietnam is better today than ever in its history? From where I sit looking in, it appears that the north and south have come together, no more war, better economy, and relative peaceful coexistence. How do you see Vietnam?
You have a curious reading of history and interpretation of facts.
@@IAR823DC No "coexistence" but a unified Vietnam under a single party rule, and capitalist economy, like China's!
@@truthadvocacy Well I think American has a curious reading beliefs that they didn't started the Vietnam War and that they did to help the South Vietnamese peoples when they cut off all US promise military aids. A War which they started.
No place for REPORTING
I was in Vietnam with a Robert Jenkins... ACo 7th Eng - 1/5th Inf Div (M). Any relation?
@@IAR823DC DAN GOOD MORNING, THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE, 1/ 426 101st 1963- 66 no time in Vietnam
After Hamburger Hill, Ripcord was media blacked out for years. The scrutiny of the media probably saved lives. Before that command and Staff was just throwing them away.
One thing about that fake, Dan Rather, is that he's not at all useless: he's consistently served as a hideously bad example.
You must be a Texazz Trumper...
American peoples in America didn't protest when Truman and JF Kennedy was President. Because these two US Presidents got America involve in Vietnam. Before US President Truman sent US MAAG to Vietnam none of the Vietnamese knew anything about America. Majority of Vietnamese in Vietnam just want to be left alone until the French sent their French Warship to Vietnam on Nov. 23, 1946 and bomb the city of Haiphong killing 6,000 local Vietnamese and anger an entire country. US President Trumam could've step in and told France government that they can't be doing that to Vietnam. But instead he allow France to re-colonize Vietnam and disregard a letter of support for Vietnam Independence from France from Ho Chi Minh. Which cause Ho Chi Minh to seek support from communist Soviet Union and China. This is how and why Vietnam became a communist country today. Just to let you know and all American Vietnam Viet. knows. That majority of Vietnamese in Vietnam from both North and South did Not want to go to War and kill against one or another over the idea of communist or democracy. Why both leaders from North and South Vietnam couldn't rally enough support for War against one or the other. Even though both government believe that Vietnam should not be divided. Until US President JF Kennedy stage a military coup assination on a Catholic South Vietnamese president, Ngo Dinh Diem on Nov. 3, 1963 and appointed their puppet ex-Vietminh soldier, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as President of South Vietnam. After military coup assination on a Catholic South Vietnamese president, Ngo Dinh Diem, giving America all right of control of Vietnam and its Vietnamese peoples. Why US President LB Johnson started the Vietnam War and call it US Military action over the Gulf of Tonkin incident 1964. Which involve a US Destroyer Maddox was patrol past the 17th Parallel near the capital of North Vietnam, Hanoi. While assist the South Vietnamese army against the North Vietnamese. 40% of Blacks male was sent to fight in Vietnam, along with all the 18yr old white male High School drop out, non college white males, convicts, and all their problem was sent to fight in Vietnam. During the entire Vietnam War, America not once launch a full US ground invasion of North Vietnam fear it might become like the Korean War. With Communist China sending nonstop 100's of thousands Chinese troops against US troops and the threat of a thermal nuclear War with the Soviet Union. The Vietnamese are the victims of the Vietnam War. Their home was bomb burn by US military during their Search and Destroyed mission. While their forest and rivers was spray by US biological chemical, Agent Orange, which many young South Vietnamese childrens who born in that area are being infected with it even today. At the end, America withdrawl their military troops back home and have No remores to what they did to the Vietnamese peoples. 3,000,000 had to die in their country during the War and while ten of thousands of Vietnamese died at sea as refugee from hunger, disease, Thai pirates, and Chinese warship. For those who made to America in 1975 had to deal with discimination, racist, and blame for the War and the lives 58,000 US killed during the Vietnam. Not once Americans never blame themselve for electing Truman, JF Kennedy, and LB Johnson as their commander in chief of their country. The Vietmamese are the real victim of the Vietnam.
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This whole damn thing was a funking mess like nothing id ever seen b4 !! Its a machine ?? Let it go !! Not worth human life ! If they were so worried about it getting into enemy hands , then they shouldve blown the fucking thing up
Read Lam Son 719..719 stood for the year it happened and Route 9.
What has the US to do, in Vietnam?