Viet Nam .?

Question

Has everyone forgotten about Viet Nam? If I say Viet Nam,, what is the first thing you think of?

How about Iraq?

I'm not a kid, I'm 40,, and a Army Vet.

Answer 1

Rubber plantations created by the French, claimed by the USA after WW2, and destroyed by blasting dikes to let in sea water and the use of agent orange defoliant before they left. Rubber was a valuable crop and was until it was realized it could be synthetic from a lab (oil) much cheaper. The plantations still had to be destroyed so that nobody else could use them and DuPont Industries would control the worlds synthetic rubber supply through patent regulation. This may not ever been a deliberate outlined plan but it is what happened. The USA, with help from Aussie allies and South Korean Mercenaries, might have really been there just to free the Vietnamese peasants from foreign rule, establish freedom, and create a stable democracy!

What I think of next is great coffee, really fresh food and French style baking and cooking. But terrible beer.

Then I think of Muhammad Alli saying "No little yellow man ever called me ******" and going to jail for five years instead of enlisting. And Tricky Dick Nixon, and every politician wanting to end the war but stepping it up instead, and the Doimino Theory, and the Bombing of Cambodia (followed by the Khymer Rouge and the Killing Fields), and the huge increase in the supply of drugs from the Golden Triangle. And leaches and foot fungus all over. Not much to remember really.

Answer 2

I think the only people in this country who have forgotten Viet Nam are now running the government.

God help us all.

Answer 3

I flew helicopters in viet nam. It was a meaningless war, and one that exposed the fraility of the human condition, the hipocracy of politics, and the very worst of what lies inside of us. As you kids salute and applaud your friends and other military people you see on the street (and rightly so), pause for a second and think about what I and your Dad's experienced. We fought for our very survival in the worst of conditions, watching our friends get brutally murdered or dismembered, or lost their minds. When we returned to the US we were spit on by people in airports. There were no parades for us. There were protests. it wasn't our fault, we had to go. Men like your fathers losts limbs and have been forgotten by our government, now they starve on streetcorners and are laughed at as bums. Worse, some of you kids are enjoying beating them to death for no better reason than you are bored and see someone you can hurt and get away with it. When you think of Viet Nam, or even of the fighting today, think about the next generation of Dads and kids. And remember.

Answer 4

I think of the fils of the day we declared 'victory' and left, with people trying to hold on to the struts of helocoptors leaving the embassay; of helocoptors being pushed off of aircraft carriers to make room for landings. What death and foolishness.

Answer 5

Mi Lai

Answer 6

a war in which we lost countless men fighting a war we shouldn't have been fighting . I think of the draft , protests , and all the lives lost

Answer 7

And I think of your Dad T-Time... and many other Dads, brothers and sons.. and the women. The hundreds of thousands that served and the 58,000+ US military men and women who lost their lives.

I think of the cruelty of the VietNam war. I think of the men and boys who never wanted to go but had no choice.

For those that went, I think about how they were misunderstood and mistreated when they came home. I think about the men and women who can't talk about what they experienced til this day.

I think about people like Jane Fonda who should fry in Hell for how their behavior prolonged the agony to so many men. I can't help but to think of the name of John Kerry when I hear VietNam. He disgusts me how he used his military history to elevate himself to some kind of hero status. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give him a 3. For the 3 months that he saw active duty while serving in VietNam.

I think about the men and women who never came home and their remains are still scattered around that region of the world.

I think about how people try to compare the VietNam War and the War in Iraq. I think it is a dishonor to the men and women who served in the VietNam War to try and compare the two. There is no comparison and it belittles the travesty that those who served honorably experienced in the VietNam War.

Answer 8

I think of my Dad.

Answer 9

I think of an egg-roll with sauce and shrimp on the side.

What is your point?

Answer 10

My dad.