My first supervisor in the military was a helicopter crew chief and gunner in Vietnam. He knew I was a big history buff, and he invited me to travel to Vietnam in 1999 and 2001, with a bunch of Vietnam Veterans, and their spouses and families. We traveled from Hanoi and Ha Long Bay, Hanoi Hilton, Hue, Citadel, Da Nang, Nha Trang, Khe Sanh, Camp Eagle, China Beach, Perfume river, Cu Chi tunnels, Saigon, and a bunch of battle sites. It was an incredible experience, touring the cities, camps, and battle sites, and hearing the Veterans stories first hand. There were very few Westerners sightseeing in Vietnam back then, and we got a lot of attention, especially the further away from Saigon you got. It was very emotional for the Vietnam Vets, but it really helped them heal, and they ended up having a lot of fun. We did things like hiring a bunch of cyclo drivers in Hanoi to show us around and we had one ride around with an insulated keg of Tiger beer, so we could drink and sightsee. Whenever the cyclo drivers took breaks they would pull out their rice whiskey and we'd drink together and bs. Everyone that saw us drinking and riding around with the keg thought it was hilarious, apparently no one had seen a bunch of big white guys riding around doing that before. LOL Also, back then a lot of the cyclo drivers you saw in South Vietnam were former South Vietnamese military, after their time in reeducation camps, those type of jobs were about all they were allowed. They really enjoyed talking to and sharing stories with the American Veterans group i was with. As far as the museums there's a lot of propaganda, and it's really bad if you can read French, the English descriptions is tamed down, but the French versions are usually full of shit. One example in the war museum in Saigon, there is a picture of an APC with a rope or cable pulling a Vietcong body into the jungle. In English the description is fairly generic, but in French it says that American troops are dragging him to his death. First of all the troops in the APC were South Vietnamese forces, and secondly per the Veterans i was with, it showed the troops clearing dead bodies after an attack. They said that some of the attacks lasted several days and by the time they could clean up the bodies they were decomposing and nobody wanted to touch them. So, they would wrap a rope or cable around them and drag them off into the jungle to be buried in a mass grave. It was one of the few times my 4 years of French in high school paid off. LOL I just posted some video from those trips on my channel if anyone is interested. Thanks, Martin
Today we bring you along as we go visit the Cu Chi Tunnels in the district of Cu Chi, Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) Vietnam. Listen as our Vietnamese tour guide shares the Vietnamese version of war that took place in the tunnels of Cu Chi. Please see the links below to get the full history of the Vietnam Conflict as well as the history of the tunnels. www.history.com/news/vietnam-war-origins-events#:~:text=The%20Vietnam%20War%20(1955%2D1975,communist%20leader%20Ho%20Chi%20Minh. www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/cu-chi-tunnels Link to our video “Our Interesting Ride To Cu Chi Tunnels HCMC (Saigon) Vietnam” th-cam.com/video/plB2h5batF8/w-d-xo.html Thank you for watching. Please like, share and subscribe. Follow us on Instagram at snow.gift and send a private message on our Face Book page at Thai Girl Gift & Foreigner Joe For Legal assistance of any kind in Thailand, Visa help, assistance in obtaining a visa, contracts, K1 visa's, Business law, or just stay in Thailand and leave the visa hassles to the pros. Go here tslthailand.com/ facebook.com/tslthailand Also, TLP takes care of your legal issues while you concentrate on growing your business.
That is not the Vietnam I knew in ''68 and again in ''70 .But even being as Bomb out as it was then You could see how Pretty it was before .I so would love to go back .. Joe You are so Lucky , Please keep these tours coming ..Thank You.
Thank you for sharing , this is great food for me to realize the pain of war for most of all the kind working and innocent people in all sides suffer ! We need to see this realty and hope all our friends remain strong , our freedom needs us all to support peace ! Peace to all people !!
I visited the Hoa Lo (Hanoi Hilton) museum, only because my uncle (that talked me out of joining the military) spent 18 months there, that was enough for me, I have no desire to see any more. I was amazed at how nice the people of northern Vietnam and Laos were to me, it was heartbreaking to hear some of their stories. Many blessings to you both and your families 🙏🏼
wow, very well presented tour, your guide had perfect English, really enjoying your trip and looking forward to more posts, thank you Joe, Gift and everyone
Chills down my spine. War is gruesome. In the end there are only losers as civilians and soldiers lose their lifes. Respect Joe and Gift. You were very respectful and humble.
I was directly behind the guide going through those tunnels. Guide was about 5'8" and I was 6'2" and fit. He left me behind after 30 seconds. The bent over angle will blast your quads. That people lived, cooked and children schooled down in these tunnels for years is amazing.
I’m 6’1 and I crawled to the 3rd exit. After the 2nd I was flat army crawling. I almost passed out in there. Every time I see someone’s video being around those tunnels I start getting anxious. I still can’t believe they lived down there for so long. I have the highest amount of respect for Vietnamese people.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. I tip my hat to the people of Vietnam who did win the Vietnam War. I tip my hat to the people of Vietnam who forgive. Safe travels.
Wow, thanks for your excellent coverage of the tunnels and the horror that await any soldier who was ordered to investigate, I believe that the Mexican soldiers were sent down the tunnels because their body proportions were way smaller than the average American. The area was carpet bombed constantly, after the war the bomb fragments were collected and shipped to Japan and exchanged for step through motor bikes. When I was in Vietnam I was told that Laos was bombed more than Vietnam, what a horror story, sadly today the destruction in other lands continues and over the years we have learnt who the major culprit is.
Thanks that was very interesting to see again. We've been on a similar tour in 2016 and walked a bit well crouched a bit of the tunnels. We had a great guide too. I still think it's a good tour and shows how ingenious the locals were in that area.
This was an excellent video Joe and the tour guide's English impeccable. Very informative though enjoyable would be the wrong word for the wartime descriptions.
I can see how this war was so chilling. Hidden in plain sight. So candid about the spike traps. Australia lost many in this war also. This is hard to watch but maybe necessary. May we never see another war like this where so many suffer on both sides.
Hey Joe! Surprised to see you in Vietnam. You gotta go up to Danang! Your buddy Esquire has moved there and has fallen in love with it. But, the real reason to go is HoiAn! 30 minutes down the beach is worth your trip to Vietnam! I know you love Prachuap but HoiAn is fabulous. My house is 10 minutes from the beach and 5 minutes from Old Town and I’m totally in love with my new life there. If you go I can be your local guide! Haha Rent a bike and I will make your trip insane! 😆👍🏻 Let me know if you decide to go… 🤗❤️. Roger
Wow Thanks for the tour Joe, I am thinking it would of been a difficult thing for you to do. My dad was also in the Vietnam war and I know he couldn't of done this but its something i would go and do to see what it was somewhat like, ( but not while he is still with us ) I know it won't be the same but just a look into what you and many went through. Thanks
Thank you 🙏 to your dad for his Service. I was not in Vietnam as I was too young. I joined the US Army in 1979 and served for 4 years. After the Army I worked for an Agency within the Department of Defense and retired from there in 2018.
@@thaigirlgiftforeignerjoe7774 Yes sorry you have just turned 62, i was so wrapped up in your video i wasn't thinking. lol. Anyway thanks for your service 🙏and all the stuff you do on here for people like us to watch all the places you go in the LOS.
Chuck can't be following me -- I went to school in Miami, been to th hotel where his father works - Viet Nam in '69 (been to Hawaii 3 times) Thailand in '70 - finisheed up service in Okinawa. 25th div. in Nam - I live in Houston now - 73 years young. Just purchased my first E-bikee Fuji (I now own 3 Fujis & a Giant bikes) --- Thank You both for thee memories - Take Care
That's so weird to see the animatronic mannequiens in uniforms like that. I remember when they used to hired actors in uniforms to work there for the tourists to see.
Joe, I am glad you were brave enough to show this video. Up until seeing it I had planned to visit Viet Nam. But I fear the trip and experience would be too painful. I lost a very close friend and mentor, Eugene Hilton, in less than six months of his being deployed. Still remember coming home from Junior High and my parents sitting in our kitchen silently. My Mother later in life, saying she was not sure how to tell me of his death or of how I would react as a thirteen year old. Eugene was an incredible athlete, a warm and compassionate person, who served as our youth minister. He was refused a faith deferment or exemption, and reluctantly answered the draft. Black, inner city males were killed in Viet Nam in higher percentages than any drafted or enlisted group, while fighting a war with people who had never discriminated against them … 😮for a country that had. Years later, my lottery number was only one or two numbers below those who were called up as 18 year olds in my draft year. My fear is, … having come 😮from a Marine Corps family, with a decorated Korean War Veteran Father and five older Uncles, who all saw action and sustained injuries … in every arena in World War Two, … that I would have answered the call. Many of my classmates did and died. What a horrible, pointless and costly war … that destroyed many families of every race on all sides of the Oceans. Muhammad Ali will forever be my vindicated Hero for refusing, … not out of fear, but out of principle and conviction, … to fight in that war, which made Dow Chemical and other members of what Eisenhower called … “the Industrial Military Complex” massively rich beyond measure … at the expense of 19 year olds. I am a proud Kent State Graduate of 1976. You know the rest 😢 Thank you Joe.
very interesting isnt it joe the whole place. yes fired the old pig ( m60) there when my wife and i went in 2018. hope you and gift are enjoying vietnam on her first trip. take care bud.
They have added a lot of stuff since my trip many years ago,, the only thing that disappointed me about vietnam, the war is all you hear about , its as if their country never existed before the war. which is rather sad, they need to move on themselves .
JO wait until you go to DA NANG very cheap ,little AMERICA Vietnam is no longer communist in the south free trade ,the north is totally different good show
I walked that same area in 1969 - Thankk You
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My first supervisor in the military was a helicopter crew chief and gunner in Vietnam. He knew I was a big history buff, and he invited me to travel to Vietnam in 1999 and 2001, with a bunch of Vietnam Veterans, and their spouses and families. We traveled from Hanoi and Ha Long Bay, Hanoi Hilton, Hue, Citadel, Da Nang, Nha Trang, Khe Sanh, Camp Eagle, China Beach, Perfume river, Cu Chi tunnels, Saigon, and a bunch of battle sites. It was an incredible experience, touring the cities, camps, and battle sites, and hearing the Veterans stories first hand. There were very few Westerners sightseeing in Vietnam back then, and we got a lot of attention, especially the further away from Saigon you got. It was very emotional for the Vietnam Vets, but it really helped them heal, and they ended up having a lot of fun. We did things like hiring a bunch of cyclo drivers in Hanoi to show us around and we had one ride around with an insulated keg of Tiger beer, so we could drink and sightsee. Whenever the cyclo drivers took breaks they would pull out their rice whiskey and we'd drink together and bs. Everyone that saw us drinking and riding around with the keg thought it was hilarious, apparently no one had seen a bunch of big white guys riding around doing that before. LOL
Also, back then a lot of the cyclo drivers you saw in South Vietnam were former South Vietnamese military, after their time in reeducation camps, those type of jobs were about all they were allowed. They really enjoyed talking to and sharing stories with the American Veterans group i was with.
As far as the museums there's a lot of propaganda, and it's really bad if you can read French, the English descriptions is tamed down, but the French versions are usually full of shit. One example in the war museum in Saigon, there is a picture of an APC with a rope or cable pulling a Vietcong body into the jungle. In English the description is fairly generic, but in French it says that American troops are dragging him to his death. First of all the troops in the APC were South Vietnamese forces, and secondly per the Veterans i was with, it showed the troops clearing dead bodies after an attack. They said that some of the attacks lasted several days and by the time they could clean up the bodies they were decomposing and nobody wanted to touch them. So, they would wrap a rope or cable around them and drag them off into the jungle to be buried in a mass grave. It was one of the few times my 4 years of French in high school paid off. LOL
I just posted some video from those trips on my channel if anyone is interested.
Thanks,
Martin
Thank you 🙏 for sharing.
Thanks or the Cu Chi Tunnel tour, very interesting. Thanks Gift and Joe.
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Today we bring you along as we go visit the Cu Chi Tunnels in the district of Cu Chi, Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) Vietnam. Listen as our Vietnamese tour guide shares the Vietnamese version of war that took place in the tunnels of Cu Chi. Please see the links below to get the full history of the Vietnam Conflict as well as the history of the tunnels.
www.history.com/news/vietnam-war-origins-events#:~:text=The%20Vietnam%20War%20(1955%2D1975,communist%20leader%20Ho%20Chi%20Minh.
www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/cu-chi-tunnels
Link to our video “Our Interesting Ride To Cu Chi Tunnels HCMC (Saigon) Vietnam”
th-cam.com/video/plB2h5batF8/w-d-xo.html
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Very interesting tour and much appreciated.
Great job! Great content! Thank you very much!
Thank you 🙏
Very interesting videos again
Great video 👍
That is not the Vietnam I knew in ''68 and again in
''70 .But even being as Bomb out as it was then You
could see how Pretty it was before .I so would love to
go back .. Joe You are so Lucky , Please keep these
tours coming ..Thank You.
Go visit. Avoid places like this and you will have a great time.
Thank you 🙏 for watching.
Thank you for sharing , this is great food for me to realize the pain of war for most of all the kind working and innocent people in all sides suffer ! We need to see this realty and hope all our friends remain strong , our freedom needs us all to support peace ! Peace to all people !!
Thank you 🙏 for watching.
Excellent! Great Tour guide...and the real deal!
Thank you 🙏
Another great watch. Well done for asking the question at the end, many wouldn't have asked but we were all wondering xxx
Thank you 🙏
I visited the Hoa Lo (Hanoi Hilton) museum, only because my uncle (that talked me out of joining the military) spent 18 months there, that was enough for me, I have no desire to see any more. I was amazed at how nice the people of northern Vietnam and Laos were to me, it was heartbreaking to hear some of their stories.
Many blessings to you both and your families 🙏🏼
Thank you 🙏 for sharing.
Fascinating tour, Joe. Thanks for sharing and taking us along!
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Thanks for sharing. I shared this with my family since the change them seeing this irl is small.
Fascinating video. Thank you Joe & Gift for sharing your time and experience
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Great tour, amazing and sad at the same time.
Thank you for watching.
Very interesting and also very sad. Thanks for taking us along! Enjoy your Vietnam adventure. God Bless... ❤ 🙏
Thank you 🙏. God bless!
wow, very well presented tour, your guide had perfect English, really enjoying your trip and looking forward to more posts, thank you Joe, Gift and everyone
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thanks for coming to visit my beautiful country. I was happy that we got to join you on this adventure. ❤
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That was a fantastic video Joe, thanks for taking us all there.
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Interesting , thanks Joe & Gift
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Chills down my spine. War is gruesome. In the end there are only losers as civilians and soldiers lose their lifes. Respect Joe and Gift. You were very respectful and humble.
Very Good Video Joe and Gift 😊.
Stay Stay 💕 💞 🙏 🙏
Thank you 🙏
Very interesting
🙏👍Thank You
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This was so interesting. I would love to see that. Thank you
Thank you 🙏
That was informative Thank you two for Sharing!
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Thanks for the tour.
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Wow this video was so informative and interesting. A real eye opener on what they did.
I was directly behind the guide going through those tunnels. Guide was about 5'8" and I was 6'2" and fit. He left me behind after 30 seconds. The bent over angle will blast your quads. That people lived, cooked and children schooled down in these tunnels for years is amazing.
I’m 6’1 and I crawled to the 3rd exit. After the 2nd I was flat army crawling. I almost passed out in there. Every time I see someone’s video being around those tunnels I start getting anxious. I still can’t believe they lived down there for so long. I have the highest amount of respect for Vietnamese people.
Thank you 🙏 for watching.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. I tip my hat to the people of Vietnam who did win the Vietnam War. I tip my hat to the people of Vietnam who forgive. Safe travels.
Wow, thanks for your excellent coverage of the tunnels and the horror that await any soldier who was ordered to investigate, I believe that the Mexican soldiers were sent down the tunnels because their body proportions were way smaller than the average American.
The area was carpet bombed constantly, after the war the bomb fragments were collected and shipped to Japan and exchanged for step through motor bikes.
When I was in Vietnam I was told that Laos was bombed more than Vietnam, what a horror story, sadly today the destruction in other lands continues and over the years we have learnt who the major culprit is.
Powerful Joe, thanks - enough said
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Grisly reminder of the past
Thank you 🙏 for watching.
Congratulations on the content. Another excellent vídeo.😊
Thank you 🙏
What a great tour! I am going to have to go there myself someday! Thank you for sharing!
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Enjoyed this episode immensely. Brought back memories of my trip to the tunnels back in ‘95 and ‘02.
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Great tour. Thanks. We hope to see that on our next visit. Glad I missed that war.
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Great people defending their country from France and then The US . Respect deserved 👏
Thanks that was very interesting to see again. We've been on a similar tour in 2016 and walked a bit well crouched a bit of the tunnels. We had a great guide too. I still think it's a good tour and shows how ingenious the locals were in that area.
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This was an excellent video Joe and the tour guide's English impeccable. Very informative though enjoyable would be the wrong word for the wartime descriptions.
Thank you 🙏 for watching.
"Not Very Comfortable" has to be the understatement of all times when referring to the experience of stepping on a Booby Trap.
I think the 20cm x 30cm entrance was probably enough to keep the Americans out.
They used the Vietnamese tunnel rats to do the job.
good video Joe loved the clear audio well done and informative. Must have been a terrible death for some soldiers.
Thank you 🙏
Interesting, a lot different than when I was stationed there in 1973. Ha ha.
Thank you 🙏 for watching.
Believe it or not there are tunnels all over the world! Most are not good used to traffic children 🙏 also!😢
I can see how this war was so chilling. Hidden in plain sight. So candid about the spike traps. Australia lost many in this war also. This is hard to watch but maybe necessary.
May we never see another war like this where so many suffer on both sides.
Really well-videoed Joe, I should add. Was just feeling the impact.
Hey Joe! Surprised to see you in Vietnam. You gotta go up to Danang! Your buddy Esquire has moved there and has fallen in love with it. But, the real reason to go is HoiAn! 30 minutes down the beach is worth your trip to Vietnam! I know you love Prachuap but HoiAn is fabulous. My house is 10 minutes from the beach and 5 minutes from Old Town and I’m totally in love with my new life there. If you go I can be your local guide! Haha Rent a bike and I will make your trip insane! 😆👍🏻
Let me know if you decide to go… 🤗❤️. Roger
Thank you 🙏 will do.
war sucks.Watching those tunnels and traps was painful and sad.
Yes it does.
Wow Thanks for the tour Joe, I am thinking it would of been a difficult thing for you to do. My dad was also in the Vietnam war and I know he couldn't of done this but its something i would go and do to see what it was somewhat like, ( but not while he is still with us ) I know it won't be the same but just a look into what you and many went through. Thanks
Thank you 🙏 to your dad for his Service. I was not in Vietnam as I was too young. I joined the US Army in 1979 and served for 4 years. After the Army I worked for an Agency within the Department of Defense and retired from there in 2018.
@@thaigirlgiftforeignerjoe7774 Yes sorry you have just turned 62, i was so wrapped up in your video i wasn't thinking. lol. Anyway thanks for your service 🙏and all the stuff you do on here for people like us to watch all the places you go in the LOS.
Vietnamese are amazing strong people they deserve our respect. The war was a big mistake.
Chuck can't be following me -- I went to school in Miami, been to th hotel where his father works - Viet Nam in '69 (been to Hawaii 3 times) Thailand in '70 - finisheed up service in Okinawa. 25th div. in Nam - I live in Houston now - 73 years young. Just purchased my first E-bikee Fuji (I now own 3 Fujis & a Giant bikes) --- Thank You both for thee memories - Take Care
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That's so weird to see the animatronic mannequiens in uniforms like that. I remember when they used to hired actors in uniforms to work there for the tourists to see.
Thank you 🙏 for watching.
Joe,
I am glad you were brave enough to show this video. Up until seeing it I had planned to visit Viet Nam. But I fear the trip and experience would be too painful. I lost a very close friend and mentor, Eugene Hilton, in less than six months of his being deployed. Still remember coming home from Junior High and my parents sitting in our kitchen silently. My Mother later in life, saying she was not sure how to tell me of his death or of how I would react as a thirteen year old. Eugene was an incredible athlete, a warm and compassionate person, who served as our youth minister. He was refused a faith deferment or exemption, and reluctantly answered the draft.
Black, inner city males were killed in Viet Nam in higher percentages than any drafted or enlisted group, while fighting a war with people who had never discriminated against them … 😮for a country that had. Years later, my lottery number was only one or two numbers below those who were called up as 18 year olds in my draft year. My fear is, … having come 😮from a Marine Corps family, with a decorated Korean War Veteran Father and five older Uncles, who all saw action and sustained injuries … in every arena in World War Two, … that I would have answered the call. Many of my classmates did and died.
What a horrible, pointless and costly war … that destroyed many families of every race on all sides of the Oceans. Muhammad Ali will forever be my vindicated Hero for refusing, … not out of fear, but out of principle and conviction, … to fight in that war, which made Dow Chemical and other members of what Eisenhower called … “the Industrial Military Complex” massively rich beyond measure … at the expense of 19 year olds.
I am a proud Kent State Graduate of 1976. You know the rest 😢
Thank you Joe.
Thank you 🙏 for watching and sharing your story.
Hurry back to Thailand!
I went in tunnels in North Vietnam & passed out!
very interesting isnt it joe the whole place. yes fired the old pig ( m60) there when my wife and i went in 2018. hope you and gift are enjoying vietnam
on her first trip. take care bud.
🙏
They have added a lot of stuff since my trip many years ago,, the only thing that disappointed me about vietnam, the war is all you hear about , its as if their country never existed before the war. which is rather sad, they need to move on themselves .
58,000 soldiers lost their lives to many of these trap tactics. The US was far advanced militarily but was not prepared for guerilla tactics.
Joe what is the youtube name and link of the other tall guy next to you filming as well?
Please check the video description for the link to his channel.
"Not very comfortable"!
Joe when I went there about 5 years ago they also had a rifle/gun range that you could use ,is it still there ??
Yes it is. You can hear the shooting in the background of this video.
I have been there what a fantasic day trip and firing MK at the range was just wow! Thanks for the memory.
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JO wait until you go to DA NANG very cheap ,little AMERICA Vietnam is no longer communist in the south free trade ,the north is totally different good show
Thank you 🙏 for the info.
Shame how we used to kill each other......oh wait, apparently we learned NOTHING, and still doing it!! Shame on us!
Probably not the best choice of words by the guide to use when soldiers falls into the traps with spikes and snakes.