Who was the monk, or where are pictures of the monk who set himself on fire in the Nam war?

Question

Does anyone know the name of the monk who set himself on fire in protest during the vietnam war, or just more disturbing footage in general on Nam. We saw some along time ago like a sergent killing a Vietnamise guy and the blood poured out it was sick. Well any links would be great i have a report to do for history on the effects of war on people so thanks.

Answer 1

Sorry, I don't know his name. I remember clearly seeing the pictures when they were first broadcast.

One of the best historians of the war, in my opinion, was a guy named Bernard Fall. Amazon and/or Ebay probably has his books about the war, possibly some with pictures.

I did an image search for "self-immolation monks in Vietnam" and got 7 pictures.
Also check out this link:

http://www.vietnampix.com/fire1.htm

Answer 2

Don`t forget the pictures of the 1 and a half million boat people that fled Vietnam, or the 1 million that drowned trying because we left without winning.
Oh yes don`t forget the 175,000 Montengards who were hunted down and slaughtered when we left..You`ll need pictures of them.
Don`t forget the reeducation camps.
Oh yes you need to include the killing fields of Cambodia where 2 to 3 million were killed mostly with baseball bats because we had given up and there was no one to stop it.

Some Wars enslave people some Wars free people. America frees people most of the time unless we loose. Here is a list of the countries America has freed or protected with force or threat of force from Dictators, Nationalist Socialism, Religious Fanatics, and Communism, and are still free today.

1945-50 Population freed
Japan 127,463,711
Philippines 89,468,677
Micronesia 108,004
W. Germany 44,500,300
France 60,876,136
Italy 58,133,509
Belgium 10,379,067
Netherlands 16,491,461
Norway 4,610,820
Solomon isl. 552,438
Denmark 5,450,661
Israel 6,352,117
Marshall Isl 60,422
Luxembourg 474,413
Guam 171,019

1950`s
Korea 48,846,823
Taiwan 23,036,147
Austria 8,192,880

1960`s
Dominican Rep. 9,183 984

1970`s
Thailand 64,631,984*

1980`s
Grenada 89,703
Nicaragua 5,570,129
El Salvador 6,822,378
East Germany 37,922,905
Poland 38,536,869
Romania 22,303,552
Bulgaria 7,385,367
Hungry 9,981,334
Czech Rep 10,235,455
Estonia 1,324,333
Latvia 2,274,735
Lithuania 3,558,906
Slovakia 5,439,448
Russia Fed 142,893,540
Panama 3,191,319
Albania 3,581,655

1990`s
Kuwait 2,418,495
Bosnia Herzegovina 4,498,976
Croatia 4,494,749
Serbia Montenegro 10,832,545

2000-2006
Afghanistan 31,056,997
Iraq 26,783,383
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total 963,128,748 people free( July 2006 est.**)

Yes that's almost 1 billion people give or take 35 million or so. Don`t forget to get pictures of them.

Here is a list of US Presidents who have used military action or threat of action to free people that were not Americans.

Roosevelt freed 8 countries before he died
120,375,941

Truman freed 9 countries and the Berlin Airlift
289,626,785

Eisenhower freed 3 countries
80,075,850

Kennedy moved troops to protect Berlin
2,495,675

Johnson stopped the take over of Thailand and Dominican Rp
73,815,868

Nixon stopped communism at Thailands door
64,631,984

Ford freed the SS Mayaguez
39

Carter freed
0

Reagan freed 15 countries
297,920,309

Bush 41 freed 2 countries
5,609,814

Clinton freed 3 countries
19,262,270

Bush so far has brought freedom to 2 countries
57,840,380

During and before WWII scientist in Japan, Germany, Britain, America, and the Soviet Union were all working on producing the Bomb. Just a couple of weeks before Hitler killed himself he sent the Japanese enriched Uranium for a bomb, along with plans to deliver it, via Submarine. We intercepted the sub in the late Spring of 1945 just in time to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Japanese who planned to use it on the West coast. The Japanese had already developed a dirty bomb. The Germans had also already developed a bomber that could reach NYC with the sole intent of carrying that bomb once it was fully developed and knock America out of the war. It was a race for the bomb and we won only by weeks. Think of how it would have been if we hadn’t. So get pictures of NYC.

War! what is good for?







*Thailand was the only country, bolstered by the US Military that didn`t fall in the Vietnam war. The Thai Cong were completely eliminated from there by 1969.
** population numbers are from world fact book.