This Vietnam Veterans Memorial Changed the Way the U.S. Thought of the War

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  • @mindeloman
    @mindeloman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +215

    I went there in 1995 when i was 18 years old. Me and my friends walked over from the Lincoln memorial just talking loud and carrying on. We rounded the corner and it was like walking into a church during a funeral. The quiet was deafening. I saw a middle age man in regular clothes sitting on the ground in front the wall , like a little kid tired from walking, and he was crying while his wife was holding him. The sights....the sounds. I can never forget that moment. And simple minded me had almost forgot my mom's 1st cousin was on the wall. I was able to get some paper and borrow a crayon and do a tracing of his name and gave it to my mom. That place is hallowed ground.

    • @shampou8069
      @shampou8069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      beautiful story thanks for sharing ❤️

    • @2eleven48
      @2eleven48 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Simply but so eloquently beautifully written.

  • @Ryne918
    @Ryne918 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    Was too young to understand what the memorial was when I first saw it, but will always remember how it made my mom cry.

  • @PacoOtis
    @PacoOtis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    I was there in 1969 and named my son after my buddy who came back in a box! He would be 71, but died when he was 20. Ten of my buddies are on that wall. How I often wish things were different! Thanks for the video and best of luck to all of us!

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong ปีที่แล้ว

      The fate of your dead friends could be different if they would rather go to prison than go to the army

    • @65stang98
      @65stang98 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@thuankhong crazy to think about it like that. You want to be honorable and serve the call to you arent shamed but at the same time if they didnt go sure they wouldve been blackballed and probably went to prison, but they wouldnt have died in vietnam. Wouldve had a life.

  • @bearhughes7009
    @bearhughes7009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    My father Ssgt. B.D. Hughes was wounded during Tet. I was born 9 months after returning home from long physical and mental hospital stays. He passed a few months ago but my mom n siblings would tell me "If you could have seen how dad was before this war,he was a different man." I grew up w/his struggle but I flew him to D.C. to visit the wall and during and after I could see the man they spoke of. Thank you for the wall, it is truly a gift for our vets n families alike.

    • @bowiepua521
      @bowiepua521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yup my girls dad is on that wall Marine SGT Kenneth glaze who died at 33 years old ,from a land mine blew him and two others .Yup God bless all the children who grew up without fathers due to war , it's never easy losing love one or love one u never met .May Peace one day prevail .God bless all the veterans who served in Vietnam .

  • @julianklatte6221
    @julianklatte6221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Visiting this wall is one of the most powerful memories I have ever developed. I visited D.C. with my brother and my grandparents in 2017, and when we went to the Vietnam wall my grandpa started crying. This was the first time I had ever seen him cry, I will never forget. He is a strong man and doesn’t get too emotional, so seeing how that war affected him and the emotions he held back for 40 years will always stay with me. Thank you to all that served.

  • @DP-eo5xd
    @DP-eo5xd ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Very powerful memorial. Lin did it justice. Stepping down a slope and seeing the names keep going and going, it’s pretty powerful in a very subtle way. The memorial is not flashy on purpose because we want to concentrate on the names that just keep going and going.

  • @Wavezzzz601
    @Wavezzzz601 4 ปีที่แล้ว +358

    Purely architecturally, it's simple, but if you're trying to convey a message I think that's best, the walls simple structure allows it to hold the names, but not detract from them. Whereas other monuments are known for their arches, their statues, their whatever, this is and can only be known simply for the wall of text that it holds, and that seems a lot more important to me than grandeur.

    • @Azivegu
      @Azivegu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I've always seen it as the hole left in our society, both physically and mentally, that this war left behind. It is simple, it is clear, and it is painful, as it should be.

    • @jaydevannlisamarie4685
      @jaydevannlisamarie4685 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Very well said Mark!
      I couldn't have said it any better!

    • @Wavezzzz601
      @Wavezzzz601 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Truth Inspector shut up please

    • @Wavezzzz601
      @Wavezzzz601 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Truth Inspector It's really not the truth though, you're in a cult, seek help.

    • @hydrolifetech7911
      @hydrolifetech7911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Truth Inspector your head is full of 💩

  • @raul5920
    @raul5920 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    What struck me the most when I visited was the trickle of names at the beginning, progressively becoming an avalanche of souls and slowly trickling out again as the war ended.

    • @danielcotts8673
      @danielcotts8673 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The names begin and end at the center. The first name is on the top line of the first East panel. The names continue east as the panels decrease in size to the point. They then loop around to the point of the west panels. They then continue as the panels increase in size towards the center. They end on the last row of the west panels at the center. The ends of the east and west panels have names from May 1968. Facing the Wall east is to your right, west is to your left.

  • @kanderson5555
    @kanderson5555 4 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    2:02 "this is a black hole in the ground!"
    That's exactly what the Vietnam war was

    • @drewdurbin4968
      @drewdurbin4968 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      You like so many others completely missed the purpose of the wall. Its not about the war its not about the politics its about people, its about the human cost if that war, and from the dozens of vets I've interviewed its about healing, and knowing that we a0s a nation support them. Something they didn't get when they came home.

    • @cassieearle9196
      @cassieearle9196 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@drewdurbin4968 maya lin said it was wound that needed to be healed. i agree with her. the Vietnam war was always unnecessary but the lives lost are important. even the civilians killed in Vietnam. because fact is America did commit war crimes there.

    • @londeners3321
      @londeners3321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@cassieearle9196Think of it this way the warcrimes that happened in Vietnam will never be justified but the amount of horror the GI's went through and the torture the Vietcong did to them was asking for them to lose it

  • @GBA811
    @GBA811 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I've seen the Vietnam War by Ken Burns, and the astonishing speech of one dead soldier mother, asking how this war would be remember, how could be glorify this war when everyone saw pictures of a burned naked girl, and one man shoot in the head, asking if they want to glorify that, it just gave me chills how powerful her speech was defending this design. Even soldiers that hated the memorial at first, and visited them and saw the names of their friend who perished in the black marble mirror went in on crying. That is true architecture, as it simple as it is.

    • @aznmochibunny
      @aznmochibunny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The little girl who was photographed naked is alive and well in Canada and is a public speaker. Saw a video about her. She was at one point very embarrassed about the picture and said the whole event traumatized her and that the scars from her burns still physically hurt her to this day. It's absolutely heartbreaking.

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aznmochibunny It is a strong denunciation of the war crimes committed by its perpetrators

  • @StandedInUtah
    @StandedInUtah 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I remember the 1st time I went to the memorial in 1989. It was like a slap in the face. The men who fought in the war were in their 40's by then and seeing them breakdown when they found the names of their friends was hard for me to see.

    • @BrendanMacWade
      @BrendanMacWade 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That sloping design has a profound emotional effect. It's a somber memorial.

  • @S1L3NTG4M3R
    @S1L3NTG4M3R 4 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    The Memorial Wall was designed by American architect Maya Lin.
    In 2007, it was ranked tenth on the "List of America's Favorite Architecture" by the American Institute of Architects

    • @email5023
      @email5023 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *"American"

    • @Hijab_Diffusion
      @Hijab_Diffusion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i thought they choose her so they could avoid bad PR by hiring 5ft tall blue eyed white dude. lol

    • @ocieltorres4148
      @ocieltorres4148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Hijab_Diffusion you’re wrong, this contest was all anonymous.

    • @livewellwitheds6885
      @livewellwitheds6885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@email5023 she was American. she was a us citizen

    • @clawcross
      @clawcross ปีที่แล้ว

      Chinese , or at most Taiwanese.

  • @Imur_Huckleberry
    @Imur_Huckleberry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    To all vets, Thank you for your service.

  • @Grumszy
    @Grumszy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    Remember... With any war, someone is making a lot of money... And their children are not being shot at, blown to bits & maimed.

    • @willingsubject389
      @willingsubject389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jasper Jones Okay Boomer .

    • @Johnnyy832
      @Johnnyy832 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      TheExtravagantMule guess the boomer is smarter than whatever that dumbass generation is from lol.

    • @itsfinnickbitch63
      @itsfinnickbitch63 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@willingsubject389 that's like the least boomer thing to say\admit

    • @yourbrotachanka9221
      @yourbrotachanka9221 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The poor man fights the Rich mans war

    • @stonem0013
      @stonem0013 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      their children had an extremely serious and legitimate medical condition known as bone spurrs

  • @TacotacoBurrito69
    @TacotacoBurrito69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    RIP Grandpa. Appreciate all the vets out there.

    • @luisdmatas
      @luisdmatas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i feel bad for your grandfather dying like a worthless killer for nothing

    • @TacotacoBurrito69
      @TacotacoBurrito69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      wimmisky awe. how Liberal of you. #woke stunning And brave

  • @philbrown9764
    @philbrown9764 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was in Chu Lai 68-69 1st MAW MAG 12 and wanted to see the memorial but the best I could get to was a replica. I saw the “traveling Memorial” back in the late 80s. And I saw a Texas only Memorial many years ago but I didn’t see any names that I could remember and I was glad of that. To my Nam Vet Brothers and Sisters…Welcome Home.

  • @mankytoes
    @mankytoes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    Remember that if the Vietnamese built something on the scale it would be a crater, maybe 25-30 times the size of this. As brutal as the losses that the Americans faced are, the numbers are far lower than those they killed, even just counting civilians.

    • @florida5135
      @florida5135 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Remember that the Vietnamese executed tons of their own people - good people who believed in democracy had no place in that diseased culture.

    • @BrendanMacWade
      @BrendanMacWade 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@florida5135 It was a civil war. It was brutal. It was made more brutal by the US intervention. The US killed between 1 and 3 Million Vietnamese civilians between 1966 and 1972 (with thousands killed by landmines and the effects of Agent Orange after that). And we will never know, because we didn't care.

    • @itsnotaphase2074
      @itsnotaphase2074 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Florida south Vietnam wasn’t democratic either.

    • @chaosXP3RT
      @chaosXP3RT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah, because believe it or not, the US is good at war. The Taliban War Memorial would be even bigger

    • @chaosXP3RT
      @chaosXP3RT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BrendanMacWade I'm gonna need your sources for that. And not some Antifa source either. Actual sources

  • @버튜버봄-s9e
    @버튜버봄-s9e 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    watch the structure. The architect knew exactly what people should see its history as. how great person she is.

  • @viarnay
    @viarnay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Maya Lin nailed it. It is like a wound that needs to be healed.

  • @Aprevis
    @Aprevis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My grandpa was a airlift pilot in A airlift Brigade, his plane was shoot down by North Vietnamese Fighter jets, he was shot at the back (maybe at the lower back, lack of details), he was rescued by a Evacuation Helicopter and was brought back to the Us for Recovery,
    After he was recovered, he left the airlift brigade and joined the Military Police, He was stationed at a Checkpoint Somewhere in South vietnam, during the last days of the war, he evacuated i think near 1972-1973, After the war,
    (i have no details for his wife or anything)
    He lived at the Philippines with his Daughter, When i was a child i visited him 4 times, he still drinks Beer and smokes lol, he died from old age, in 2019,
    2 years later, my grandpa’s daughter left to the US, where she spend the rest of her life.
    Thank you for your service Grandpa.

  • @johnevans388
    @johnevans388 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    On 9/11 2003 I walked the Wall. As a Brit it wasn't my war but it's still my generation (born in '51) and anyone our age who tells you it's not an emotional experience is lying. Next day I walked Arlington in the pouring rain, I got back to my hotel cold and soaking wet but with a deep feeling of satisfaction - it was important to me.

  • @laika6661
    @laika6661 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Vice News: Makes a good upload. Dudes who clown on them: I’ll pretend I didn’t see this.

    • @alfredoelias4760
      @alfredoelias4760 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Laika you should see earlier uploads on their other channel. You’ll understand why they get hate

    • @jasonwilliamtjandra
      @jasonwilliamtjandra 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cuy50 Yeah if I usually see the dislike is more than 100, 500, or even thousands it means that it is very biased

  • @roygbiv9038
    @roygbiv9038 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Pretty messed up how the media treated the designer during that time.

  • @tbone9603
    @tbone9603 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    All of those fallen young men are heroes. I really hope that future generations never forget these young men and that a War like Vietnam never ever happens again! We don’t need history to repeat itself. This is 2021 and I will never forget how our politicians and government killed a generation of young men, so sad! NEVER FORGET!

  • @lieutenantcoffee5410
    @lieutenantcoffee5410 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My father, was a radio man during the war. I never knew that the war he fought in was a brutal, cruel and merciless war. I tried to follow his footsteps, until he gave me the real truth about war. You are never guaranteed to go back home. I'm in the 7th grade, and when I learned just what happened to all those men who came home, and those who didn't, it broke me. My dad has already passed away on Jan 2, 12:45, 2020. I will never forget him, and all he has taught me.

    • @aus-li
      @aus-li 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep, a truly senseless war that should’ve ended very quickly, nonetheless be the aggressors in starting it.

  • @GeneseesQuihui
    @GeneseesQuihui 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Omg there’s a great documentary about the memorial and how Maya had to endure some hard words from the public. It was used in my theatre design class for a project and it’s such a great things to see.

  • @elysetroubadour6117
    @elysetroubadour6117 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    After watching the video I am still curious about how the Memorial changed the way the U.S. thought of the war.

    • @TacotacoBurrito69
      @TacotacoBurrito69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Elyse Burns I think all the names on the wall representing each death makes it hard for us to send people to battle. Knowing the toll of death

    • @traplover6357
      @traplover6357 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You dont have large protests against wars without Patriots defending their government for any war crime they commit.

    • @chaosXP3RT
      @chaosXP3RT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Before the memorial, US soldiers were labeled Nazis, Baby Killers and were publicly spit on and assaulted in the streets. After the Memorial, they were seen as victims of the war

    • @bowiepua521
      @bowiepua521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dreamstate don't u have some sympathy of the families who fathers and mothers are name on that wall , let put all the bs politics aside for moment and let's remember the ones that are on that wall .

    • @bowiepua521
      @bowiepua521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dreamstate how old are you ? We were around then when Hanoi Jane Fonda was there , were u ?

  • @soxbearshwks8988
    @soxbearshwks8988 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    my high school classmates Elmwood Park ILL.....................RIP
    1Lt. Paul Charles Bertolozzi USMC KIA 8-2-67
    Cpl. Richard Clark Abbate USMC KIA 5-18-68
    i was 3rd Batt. 7th Marines ChuLai,RVN 10/65-11/66

  • @drewdurbin4968
    @drewdurbin4968 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The wall allowed the nation to talk about the war which we really didn't do until that time. It allowed the vets, family members of those killed to be able to at least start to heal. Every single name on that wall represents the pain of multiple people that thus nation never faced prior to its construction

  • @Fabzil
    @Fabzil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This video desperatly need subtitles

  • @channingbloom7125
    @channingbloom7125 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I visited the wall a couple of months ago. Unlike other memorials this ones was always more quiet than the others. One thing that was sad to hear was how small the names were. The names inscribed were tiny. Pair that with how the name’s were squeezed together, leaving no room in between and of how long the wall was, it felt like it was more than 58,000. It looked like it was WAY more than that. I just remembered thinking to myself after seeing all the names, “and they died for nothing”. They truly died in vain. Said a little prayer and was on my way. Families still grieve there to this day.

  • @cegammons
    @cegammons 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    poor people dying for rich people's money

    • @chaosXP3RT
      @chaosXP3RT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      There was no money to gain in Vietnam. It was saving the nation of South Vietnam from a Communist regime

    • @Brkinart
      @Brkinart 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Dreamstate Certainly there's the business of war, however, that's not always the case... it's not always about profit...Vietnam was a really unfortunate proxy in the fight against communism

    • @Crushenator500
      @Crushenator500 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@chaosXP3RT The war in Vietnam was to prevent Russia from becoming more powerful. That's it. It was a proxy war and an offshoot of the cold war. It had nothing to do with saving Vietnam from anything.

    • @DUDEfreestyle
      @DUDEfreestyle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Crushenator500 definitely proxy, same with neighboring Lao & Cambodia. Domino effect.

    • @rickiex
      @rickiex 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@DUDEfreestyle all ya need to calm down, but sides are true. they intended to stop communism at the same time as making profits. war is bad

  • @michaelnitsch4431
    @michaelnitsch4431 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    so sad the memories of guys who you went to basic training with and all and you came back and they did not I still weep! even after all these years

  • @chaosXP3RT
    @chaosXP3RT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A Asian American, called racial slurs and threatened, changed how we saw Vietnam Vets. She changed how the USA treated veterans who came home to be called Baby Killers, Rapists, Nazis and have people spit in their face. It brings tears to my eyes

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong ปีที่แล้ว

      War crime cannot be easily erased from human memory

    • @chaosXP3RT
      @chaosXP3RT ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thuankhong Can you list all the Chinese, North Korean and Russian war crimes?

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chaosXP3RT Dirty fabricated "crimes" like WMD of Saddam Hussein

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chaosXP3RT Their crimes are many as WMD of Saddam Hussein .Shame on you!

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chaosXP3RT Their war crimes are many as Saddam Hussein' WMD .Shame on you!

  • @eptskay
    @eptskay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    shouts to my Pops who survived the Viet Nam war & didn't tell me he was deaf in one ear from the war until he had surgery on that ear last year. what a fuckin sav he is..🙏

  • @cassieearle9196
    @cassieearle9196 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    kind of wish we had a memorial for all the civilians lost in that war too. absolutely pointless fucking war.

  • @TheUsername217
    @TheUsername217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Some of these men were forced to fight and die

  • @MrYeahyuhhh
    @MrYeahyuhhh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    very powerful to see in person

  • @nickc3657
    @nickc3657 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I hope we can create an equally iconic memorial for the quarter-of-a-million plus Americans who’ve died from this pandemic.

    • @stonem0013
      @stonem0013 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      those deaths were a gift from our brilliant president! shame on you liberals for failing to recognise his genius

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong ปีที่แล้ว

      Covid deaths have more people to blame than war

  • @echosolace
    @echosolace 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    All props to the editor for ending on that note.

  • @Aristotle2000
    @Aristotle2000 ปีที่แล้ว

    Once people finally saw it in person, they understood.

  • @billfeist2988
    @billfeist2988 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In memory of robert e. Hewitt. Dec
    14,1969

  • @ccutehoney
    @ccutehoney 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember watching “ Reading Rainbow” about the memorial and how difficult of a process it became to get it done

  • @zer5372
    @zer5372 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Well that's sad

  • @acecommunity4275
    @acecommunity4275 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My brother went to vietnam and he never returned.

    • @DeadlyCookie15
      @DeadlyCookie15 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @K4nzler did that make you feel better to comment that shit

    • @AbuWakkasBastob
      @AbuWakkasBastob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He must have died miserably & should be rot in hell

    • @teno2320
      @teno2320 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@AbuWakkasBastob do you feel better about yourself now that you've said something so disgusting

    • @frankpolly
      @frankpolly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@AbuWakkasBastob Well I know one fact for sure, his brother was more human than you are.

  • @josiahmenako2484
    @josiahmenako2484 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    All that and you never really showed the wall very well as it is today.

  • @VietTran-IAMV
    @VietTran-IAMV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As a Vietnamese who actually hated the U.S imtervention in the war, I supported this veteran idea, no soliders, no veterans deserved to be treated as an outcast to their nation, all of them, no matter of their ideas, deserved the respect for what they've done for the call from their nation.

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong ปีที่แล้ว

      Heinous war crimes must be condemned..

  • @MrJOHNEBOB
    @MrJOHNEBOB 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Visit it and try not to shed a few tears

  • @kacpi479
    @kacpi479 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Audio of this video is in so bad quality

    • @icecubez130
      @icecubez130 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seriously, I'm surprised they didn't put subtitles. They got subtitles for people I can clearly understand but the audio on this one was horrible, had to turn the volume up.

  • @IngridSaybe
    @IngridSaybe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is a great monument to me. I know still. Still are critics, but somehow is a testimony. It’s her way to interpret a memory

  •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “1, 2, 3, 4 we don’t want this fucking war”
    Simple yet deep

  • @wallykoszyk2734
    @wallykoszyk2734 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great piece

  • @enormhi
    @enormhi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    How This Vietnam Veterans Memorial Changed the Way the U.S. Kept Sending Young Men and Woman to War*

  • @jupitired777
    @jupitired777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great video

  • @tw3ist
    @tw3ist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    RIP to the brave vietnamese farmers who died honourably protecting their homeland from invaders.

    • @transon6655
      @transon6655 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      not really, we south vietnamesse were fighting against the north vietnamesse (communist btw). The US troops were supporting us, but after they went back we were defeated by the north, who was backed up by the Chinesse. That's how communist took over our country.... sad

    • @mavoron
      @mavoron 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      o7

    • @cs-mi8ur
      @cs-mi8ur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was a civil war, not a invasion.Communist Vs non communists. And btw,within a decade the same Vietnamese communists invaded another country and occupied it.

    • @Ross-nd6xi
      @Ross-nd6xi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@cs-mi8ur you mean Cambodia? It was an act of justice to end pol pot, who the USA supported in the UN in the 1980s

    • @n0yn0y
      @n0yn0y 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Vietcong do not represent all Vietnamese!!! More Vietnamese died at the hands of Communists than Americans and many South Vietnamese died fighting the communists

  • @goldeneagle3088
    @goldeneagle3088 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's interesting to think that America wasn't military defeated in the Vietnam war but rather politically at home.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The military wasn't able to further without provoking a war with China.

  • @0poIE
    @0poIE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    *Very nasty war. If you haven't looked into the Vietnam war because you think its all the same shit, you'd be VERY VERY WRONG. It's one of the most lethal and educational things you could ever research about combat*

  • @wilhelmhesse1348
    @wilhelmhesse1348 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Those who died and will die outside Vietnam at home in the US also need their names next to their brothers.

  • @perrycomeau2627
    @perrycomeau2627 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Names are very important.

  • @zions4785
    @zions4785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Elite - 'But what about the thousands and thousands of needles deaths? Won't they revolt?...'
    - 'Naah, just throw up a monument after..they'll get over it..'

    • @carved6749
      @carved6749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Throwing up a memorial would remind people of the needless deaths thus revolt your conspiracy logic is flawed

  • @bowiepua521
    @bowiepua521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My girlfriend dad name is on that wall , You always be remember Marine SGT Kenneth Glaze

  • @WildBill496
    @WildBill496 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Vietnam veterans have always been proud of their service to our country. God bless them all.

    • @CatatonicImperfect
      @CatatonicImperfect 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And what exactly did that service entail? I'm feel sorry for those young GIs, but they were part of an unjust war machine that did great harm.

    • @noface4176
      @noface4176 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CatatonicImperfect they fought for their brother and sisters they died for each other Not for apple pie or medals
      Same as the north Vietnamese soldiers and civilians who died
      It was a needless terrible war

    • @CatatonicImperfect
      @CatatonicImperfect 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@noface4176 Whatever their personal motivations were, defending communism or being drafted against their will, fighting for their buddies of just trying to make it home - and I feel for these young men - they were the instruments of an unjust and brutal war and bear a personal responsibility, too. Just following orders doesn't relieve you of your moral liability for your own actions.
      Try to apply the same, fair principles to US soldiers you would to my grandfathers and their Wehrmacht buddies.

    • @CatatonicImperfect
      @CatatonicImperfect 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@noface4176tl;dr: They did a shitty thing. They can be victims and perpetrators at the same time. Only treating them as _heros_ doesn't do us or them any favors.

    • @noface4176
      @noface4176 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CatatonicImperfect what about the North Vietnamese they had brothers sons fathers husbands killed sure they did bad things too but I have shitton of respect for em too

  • @Grieche-i8y
    @Grieche-i8y 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The fact that this simple memorial managed to undo the divisions that were then fanned for years by a deeply selfish and cynical president speaks volumes.

  • @tmq0311....
    @tmq0311.... 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Looks more like a long SCOREBOARD

  • @tusharkhanna5238
    @tusharkhanna5238 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    How the Memorial changed the way the U.S. thought of the war? Probably intensified it futher, case in point Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria....

    • @aus-li
      @aus-li 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Syria wasn’t a direct war. The Gulf War was justifiable to an extent, except it was a precursor to the other wars you mentioned.

  • @joecramp2987
    @joecramp2987 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What I find most sad is how quickly Americans forgot about the tragedy that was the Vietnam war. People forget how it achieved nothing other than suffering, then after only a few years the people allowed and approved the American government going into more unnecessary regime change wars which have never been about freedom or defending the country, only money.

    • @CatatonicImperfect
      @CatatonicImperfect 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tragedy, yes, for the 18-year old draftees thrust into a war. But America was not the victim here but the perpetrator of a violent and unjust crime against the Vietnamese people.

    • @Davethreshold
      @Davethreshold 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CatatonicImperfect Our American TROOPS were also victims here because about 90% of them had one choice: Go there or move to Canada.

  • @SchützenGewehr
    @SchützenGewehr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Salute to the allies who risked their lives in vietnam🇺🇲🇵🇭🇰🇭🇹🇭🇰🇷🇳🇿🇦🇺

  • @freddiearifin
    @freddiearifin 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It has the look of a letter V, stands for Vietnam Veteran

  • @gff6929
    @gff6929 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I salute to all arvn,fank,rla,and other allied nation🇺🇸

  • @coastcity7029
    @coastcity7029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In Vietnam, this is called the American War

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong ปีที่แล้ว

      No Americans, no war in Vietnam

  • @JustAThought155
    @JustAThought155 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tom Carhart demanded the site should not be built. He discussed the negatives associated with the color black, and how “black” represents horrific stuff. Obviously, Mr. Carhart failed to realize or recognize all the White leaders, in the White House, who freely demanded more and more young men go to Vietnam to fight and die to protect their, the political leader’s professional careers and reputations. So no, Mr. Carhart, the color black does NOT represent negativity. If you don’t believe my words, look at the history books and photos to see all the leaders who ignited so much destruction and death that caused the need for a memorial site to honor the 58,000 plus murdered people, not to mention the 3 million plus Vietnamese citizens whose lives ended as a result of European involvement in that Asian state’s issues.

  • @joshuac7956
    @joshuac7956 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    to me it seems like it could be a range map with a bunker, and that war was nothing but a blood bath for both sides.... seems fitting

  • @Justin_GFM
    @Justin_GFM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Some of these comments make me happy this country isn’t full of some of the commenters. Isn’t it ironic that the people who called returning servicemen “baby killers” were for killing babies here?

  • @karanveersingh6367
    @karanveersingh6367 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful Voice. What is the name of the narrator??

  • @plumhunter9158
    @plumhunter9158 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very moving and a great tribute to those who were forced to serve and die on foreign soil for something the US gov could not agree upon. Recall Sec of Defense McNamara wrote that his roll in shaping the war was "“wrong, terribly wrong,”. But we have learned little since then as we have allowed subsequent administrations get involved in wars in Iraq, Afghanistan without sound thinking and true explanations for their decisions.

  • @margwagartha1726
    @margwagartha1726 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sad that people didn’t want this beautiful memorial because the makers Asian descent. Do you think racism will ever be eliminated?

    • @jctai100
      @jctai100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      doubt it

  • @elevatedx5563
    @elevatedx5563 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wasnt this for the vietnam war not korean war

  • @Blackbear1986
    @Blackbear1986 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Vietnam war was really pointless war resulted in many casualties of young Americans and allies. Just like war in Afghanistan. Flexing muscle, thats all.

    • @Jps007cat
      @Jps007cat 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Blackbear1986 Bro go open a history book. Educate yourself a bit before using the internet.

  • @Boz_-st4jt
    @Boz_-st4jt ปีที่แล้ว

    "It was a Shithole War in a Shithole Country" 'It Don't Mean Nuthin!'
    G/2/5 An Hoa Quang Nam Province 68-69

  • @ayeshaaz5245
    @ayeshaaz5245 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Men sacrificed for a war that wasn't theirs.

  • @ArrowThrills
    @ArrowThrills ปีที่แล้ว

    Does anyone know about Johnny Lee Palmer ? He lived in Opa Locka Florida and was killed overseas unfortunately he was once married to my Grandmother Oma.

  • @ramirorubio3061
    @ramirorubio3061 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We should have won this war we lost so many men . Let the military do it’s job don’t hold them back that’s what happened.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      War with China?

  • @92bagder
    @92bagder 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice interview, terrible title

  • @ad70.93
    @ad70.93 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vietnam war is stupid war..😢

  • @luisdmatas
    @luisdmatas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    is sad all those people die for nothing like their value for the life is worthless for their goverment

  • @jacobt1045
    @jacobt1045 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Her professor gave her a B for the design because, in part, he thought it was too simple. Less is more in this case.

  • @The_passiveObserver
    @The_passiveObserver 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What about the Vietnamese were are their names

    • @The_passiveObserver
      @The_passiveObserver 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      kokrochina but we started the game

    • @gamesman0118
      @gamesman0118 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Somewhere in Vietnam would be my guess. Funny thing most memorials are for the vets of the country they are in. We don't have memorials for Germans or Jananese either. Imagine that. If the Vietnamese want a memorial it probably already exists.
      BTW Where not were

  • @woodscw50
    @woodscw50 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    TEAM Atour my brotherMarine sgt 9th marines

  • @Gilotopia
    @Gilotopia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I can't understand a word of these interviews. Please do something about the sound quality.

  • @haqmallaghmani6783
    @haqmallaghmani6783 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    God was with the Vietnam's people and they win the way against amirecan
    Tell to the amirecan they will lose war in
    Afghanistan,Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Libya,sodan,and all around the world
    I am sure we will see the days when the amirecan returning to them land with a big shame

    • @gamesman0118
      @gamesman0118 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is no god. Nobody was on anybodies side. There were atrocities on both sides. If you want to blame anyone blame the French. After WWII they wanted to keep all their colonies. We had taught the Vietnamese how to fight the Japanese and promised to help them gain their freedom. Well France wouldn't allow it. So they rebelled. As usual the French began losing almost from the start and cried to the U.S. for help. As we got dragged into the war the NV saught help from the only country that could counter us Russia. Suddenly it's war by proxie U.S. vs U.S.S.R. and since the only ones who wanted Vietnam to remain a colony were the most corrupt, criminal and wealthy we had to supply our own troops. Good thing there were lots of poor and/or gullible young men handy. Yeah this war proved man needs no gods to as horrendous as we can be. It was a senseless war and a huge waste of lives on both sides. Nothing was accomplished and no lessons were learned by those in power. Gods are just an excuse for trying to make people live the way you think they should. In every religion there are parts they ignore and parts they claim are VERY important.

    • @haqmallaghmani6783
      @haqmallaghmani6783 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gamesman0118 if you are attest I don't have a problem with it but the French and amirecan are a brother and they killed and murders of thousands people in Vietnam and this is the truth which you don't want to hear
      Mr. If the Russia help the Vietnam's people I am thanking it's was a very good step have to help the innocent people of Vietnam
      As well you see the French and amireca yet the are allise in the wars around the world as I mentioned the names of some country you can see
      You said it's was war of French if french killing and murders the innocent people have to be amireca there?
      I think it's don't need it
      Again I say God is with the faith and God is with the right people who start the war they will lose it
      And in the day of judgment they have to asnwer who killid the innocent people not only in Vietnam arount the world
      You mentioned WW11
      Who start WW1?
      AND WW11 ?
      All was the Europe,amireca, British,Russia they all was in wrong way and they pey for it

  • @davidbell1676
    @davidbell1676 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Don't forget the other allied countries that got roped into this invasion mess and got killed also..

    • @aus-li
      @aus-li 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean, South Korea?

    • @davidbell1676
      @davidbell1676 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      both Vietnam and South Korea and I'm speaking about New Zealand and Australian soldiers that got conscripted to help the usa in some crazy invasion ideal but let's call it war so it's ok then.. plenty of kiwis and Aussies were killed in both Asian themed usa attacks..

  • @Bayplaces
    @Bayplaces 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "The Resistance War Against America" is the Vietnamese name for the war and a more appropriate way to describe it.

  • @gvdub9172
    @gvdub9172 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Go ahead and question the morals and ethics of a war all you want, and attack the one behind it... just please leave the poor vets alone

  • @Neftegna
    @Neftegna 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    And who will remember those Vietnamese killed by invading U.S. army?

    • @lizardchosimbastedanko3077
      @lizardchosimbastedanko3077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fu-ck commies

    • @LightningSkittles101
      @LightningSkittles101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lakitu Tha Boss the Vietnamese, obviously

    • @transon6655
      @transon6655 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lakitu Tha Boss as the american were defending us South vietnamese

    • @gabrielpalma1687
      @gabrielpalma1687 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There's a war memorial in Hanoi, and there's a bunch of memorials in Vietnam commemorating the first and second Indochina war. It would be weird to have a memorial for Vietnamese soldiers in America.

    • @n0yn0y
      @n0yn0y 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      More Vietnamese died at the hands of the Vietnamese than Americans

  • @kmwa1234
    @kmwa1234 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Drafted Vietnam Vet here. I lived in Wash DC when all this was happening (civilian by then). The first time I saw the design, I was in tears. What I did NOT want was one of those stupid “rah-rah America “things! The war was a giant mistake! Which was certainly not the fault of us G,I.s!!!!! The wall is a tribute. It honors the sacrifice of all of us, while NOT glorifying the “mission”.

  • @JohnnyWalkerKat
    @JohnnyWalkerKat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    After this lets make another 100 wars we have spaces for memorials MURICA!

    • @ethanmcfarland8240
      @ethanmcfarland8240 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ethan Weight
      Hows that empire going

    • @ethanmcfarland8240
      @ethanmcfarland8240 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ethan Weight
      You stopped because two world wars bankrupted you guys

    • @JohnnyWalkerKat
      @JohnnyWalkerKat 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ethanmcfarland8240 the same war that you didn't do anything for about what 3 years? And after that you wash every useful Nazi for your own benefits?

    • @ethanmcfarland8240
      @ethanmcfarland8240 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Johnny Kat
      The Soviets did the same thing
      Victory without struggle is still victory

    • @ethanmcfarland8240
      @ethanmcfarland8240 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ethan Weight
      More like your colonies were kicking you out Left and right

  • @GreaTMaX32
    @GreaTMaX32 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Scoreboard! Scoreboard!

  • @woodscw50
    @woodscw50 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    mARINE sGT MY BROTHERS

  • @Sun-Tzu-
    @Sun-Tzu- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Hague should have a giant wall dedicated to the victims of American wars, crimes, and acts of wanton aggression and imperialism.

    • @Sun-Tzu-
      @Sun-Tzu- 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @wimmisky So true.

    • @theobuniel9643
      @theobuniel9643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      aMeRiCa bAd

    • @Sun-Tzu-
      @Sun-Tzu- 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theobuniel9643 Yes. America were never the good guys. Not ever.

  • @maxam2083
    @maxam2083 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How many American civilians died in the vietnam war? How many vietnamese? I don’t feel bad for murderers who die in war...

    • @aus-li
      @aus-li 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How many innocents continue to suffer? The true murders is the US government and the CIA.

    • @gamesman0118
      @gamesman0118 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you forget there were Vietnamese on both sides? Or that many civilians died on both sides. Did you forget the bombings? The terrorism? You version is almost as sanitized as a Republican war hawk's version would be.