If any of you are vietnam veterans can you tell me an important event that deals with vietnam. i really need your help
Thanxs
2007-09-28 07:43:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Read the book "We were young and we were soldiers" it's an excellent story. Mel Gibson starred in the movie of this real life story. Actually I think the whole title of the book was We were young and were soldiers and we were in love, but don't quote me on that. Go to dmb.com and look up Mel Gibsons filmology and the name of the movie and book will be there.
Or you could go down to the local VA hospital and explain your report and maybe even get to talk to a real vet.
xxx
2007-10-02 16:33:46 · answer #1 · answered by Shel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look up "Operation Frequent Wind", the evacuation of Saigon. I was there.
The results of having cowardly liberals influence military operations is what caused that operation to happen.
You also might append a notation about the afterward mass killing by the Communists in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos because liberals forced us to withdraw from Vietnam.
2007-10-06 12:31:28 · answer #2 · answered by commanderbuck383 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would do a report about the U.S. troops going into Cambodia in 1970. I was in the infantry and one day we are listening to president Nixon saying that we will not go into Cambodia because we were not suppose to cross the certain parallel because of the Geneva convention. The next day we were flown into tay ninh and started out operations into Cambodia. you see the viet cong would attack us then run back to Cambodia knowing we could not enter there. Once we got there we found large training camps and rice and weapons cache. The Cambodians had never seen the American soldier so we were treated like kings when we went in but a month later when we left they had learned to barter with us for what they could get. like a c ration meal for a pineapple. It seemed we spoiled their innocence.
2007-09-29 17:57:14 · answer #3 · answered by JOHN L 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Tet 1968
2007-09-28 15:41:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Gulf of Tonkin incident is a great idea. It was how the US got into the war. It was manufactured, it was a deliberate provocation of the North Vietnamese to attack an American ship to provide "justification" for the US to attack them. The ship might have even been in North Vietnamese territorial waters in order to provoke the attack. Sometimes our government totally wants a war and it will fake whatever it needs to do so. Sound familiar? Anyway, 58,000 Americans and maybe a million Vietnamese and over a million Cambodians died as a result. Its a great object lesson in why you MUST suspect the government anytime something like the Gulf of Tonkin Incident or WMDs in Iraq or whatever comes up. The stakes are just too high to trust them. And they do not have a track record worthy of trust in such matters, not at all.
2007-09-28 15:12:45 · answer #5 · answered by jxt299 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Research John McCain.
2007-09-28 15:29:40 · answer #6 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The biggest one, I think, would be the Tet Offensive. If I remember right, it was a huge attack by the Vietnamese during peace talks. (Don't quote me on the specifics, it's been years since I read or saw anything about it)
Definitely look into that.
2007-09-28 14:51:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Look up the 1968 Tet Offensive.
2007-09-28 14:48:54 · answer #8 · answered by h h 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Write about the heros of the time Jane Fonda and John Kerry
2007-10-06 11:02:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The book Five Years to Freedom Col. Jame N. ("Nick") Rowe.
2007-10-04 09:50:12 · answer #10 · answered by mrdnkgirl 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋