100th Birthday of General Giap

[Nucci604]

He is Truely The Lion of the Orient !

[ganlesat]

Happy Birthday dear Red Commander !

Our new red-Napoleon !

[ensenix]

Vietnamese was born as warriors, they have it in their gene,the blood of their ancester in them men and women. Any Country whos' allied whith Vietnam won't be sorry. Just remember this do not ever try to split their country up again.

[hectorbolshevik]

General Giap, the great military leader of a revolutionary army that turned Vietnam into a hellish nightmare for three imperial armies. A great man and a genious. Howm any in history can say they've done this?

[driver76fan]

Happy Birthday General Giap!

[nguyenster420]

god bless you uncle Giap

[lemak216]

for me,he's the best !!

[cla2539]

He slaugheted The French, He Limiliated The Americans.

[sexymalcom1970]

The best general of the 20th century



[clydewell]

What I dont understand is why loads of ex-colonial subjects talk of nationalisim and 'freedom' and then want to emigrate to the west, the very countries they hate . Weird.

[TroyOi]

It's confusing. Some sources say Giap was born in 1910, others say 1911, and still others say 1912. (All seem to agree it was August 25.) I thought his big birthday celebration was coming up this year (2011), but I see that the Vietnamese media all paid 100th BD tributes to him LAST year. Vietnamese do tend to give their ages as older than we in the West do, but that's because of the lunar calendar - and in that case, everyone gets 1 year older on Lunar New Year.

Anyway, best wishes, Gen. Giap!

[Ab0Khaled2010]

he is the man! thumbs up

[TheAdvancedMusic]

Are you able to tell me the name and group that performs this song? Is it vietnamese?

[teardown1966]

@TheAdvancedMusic

Its vietnamese - but I dont know the name of the group.

Look here: zhukov20072000.blogspot.com/se­arch/label/Vietnam

[GDQT]

@TheAdvancedMusic the song is called "Anh Vẫn Hành Quân" which means "I'm still marching on". this song is recored in 1965 which was a hard time of our people, so it is pretty hard to trace back which band performed this song. you can watch it here and many related Red Vietnamese songs. enjoy!

youtube(dot)com/watch?v=4ySXEk­_lSE0&feature=related

[TheAdvancedMusic]

@GDQT

Wow, thank you so much for the information! Perfect youtuber. Your culture has some fascinating music.

[GDQT]

@TheAdvancedMusic Watch here for flute version of this song.

youtube(dot)com/watch?v=cAb27V­vHmjI&feature=related

[Napoleon40000]

??? Far as I know he's not yet 100. Will be on August 25th this year

[crawford4140]

Heh if i ever go to Vietnam and bump into this General Giap guy im gonna show him World in Conflict and see what he thinks about where he stands in the story ground of WWIII

[vivascargill1]

@crawford4140 I will tell you where he stands--he stands with Zhukov!!

[JackKangaroo1]

General Giap holds a unique place in history. He was the only military commander ever to defeat the United States in a war. Think about it, is there any doubt that the North Vietnamese won the war in Vietnam? No. We left and they took over Saigon and the South. He was their commander. Has the USA ever lost another war? No. At age 100 Gen. Giap is a living piece of history.

[evarhadyashitpusedin]

@JackKangaroo1 Right on. Not only did he defeat the US and South Vietnam he also beat the French at Dien Bien Phu. He may have not defeated us on the battlefield but he still won. I hope he does make it to 100.

[JackKangaroo1]

@evarhadyashitpusedin In reality we fought on the wrong side out of a paranoia about Communism. The South Vietnamese gov't was a corrupt dictatorship. Ho Chi Minh was an admirer of the United States Constitution and drafted his own nation's constitution based upon its principles. We should have cultivated that relationship and helped him overthrow the crooks in Saigon. We would have had a friendly, albeit Communist, ally as a result. Today the Hanoi gov't is a trading partner with the USA.

[evarhadyashitpusedin]

@JackKangaroo1 Oh yeah I knew all about it. Ho Chi Minh actually asked for US assistance against the French, thinking that America would be eager to help revolutionaries fighting a colonial power. Unfortunately, we backed the French and the rest is history. As for our involvement, the whole thing to me was morally gray. The Commie's did some terrible things and American and South Vietnam did some terrible things. The real losers were the Vietnamese people

[GDQT]

@JackKangaroo1 that is very kind of you, Love from Vietnam!

[gettincrazywithit]

@JackKangaroo1 Too bad the United States never declared war on Vietnam, we were simply helping the South Vietnamese. Secondly they didnt win anything against the United States, they lost millions of men to our thousands and we literally destroyed their country and no Vietnamese soldier has ever once stepped foot on any US territory. Thirdly the war helped the American economy. They beat the South Vietnamese yes, but not America. :D

[JackKangaroo1]

@gettincrazywithit 1) We THOUGHT we were helping the So. Vietnamese; in reality we were propping up a corrupt dictatorship, 2) Those body count estimates were never accurate and if we "literally destroyed their country" how exactly were we "helping" them? 3) The war gave a short-term boost to the defense industry but it also began an inflationary spending binge that still curses us today. One dollar in 1965 was worth nearly seven dollars of today's money, thanks in part to the war in Vietnam.

[TheSovietSamurai]

@JackKangaroo1 I am glad to see I am not the only one trying o spread the truth. Unfortunately not many people want to believe it. The U.S ignored all of Vietnams pleas for help for Decades, South Vietnam was created in Washington. And the very incident that got the U.S involved in the war was a lie from war mongering officials who had no respect for human life, just the cash in their pockets. The Vietnamese are the people we should have helped, not the French.

[teardown1966]

@ USAxxxxxxxx : *LOL*

[sengoku17]

Salute! He has made his country proud!

[USACLINTEASTWOOD]

@sengoku17 - SAT CONG- HO CHI MINH, GEN, GIAP AND POL POT IS NAZIS, FUCK NAZIS , DEMOCRACY FOR VIETNAM, FREEDOM VIETNAM AND LAOS, THIS MR. SENGOKU17 IS KHMER ROUGE CRIMINAL WAR IN LAOS. SAT CONG. NAPALM AND AGENTE ORANGE FOR VIETCONGS GAYS.

[DRGgang2]

@USACLINTEASTWOOD democracy in your ass.Go and play with your fucking B-52.

[vivascargill]

Even if I die, my love,

I love you, though I am unable

To kiss you with the lips

Of a slave.

From a poem by Comrade General Giap

[Daisy12630]

100 not out.

Many Happy Returns

General Giap - a great hero of my father's.

[vivascargill]

we love and respect you dear Comrade Giap!

[solidaritet2010]

GREAT!

[mace41canuck]

hahahah wtf

[Nhinhonhinho1990]

Long live General Vo Nguyen Giap. General Gaip is among the greatest generals of all time

[yorubablk3]

long live General Giap ! We love you!!

[theluxifer18]

thượng thượng thọ rùi

[1992trung]

Đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giap quang vinh muôn năm !!!

[VNMIG]

Dai tuong Vo Nguyen Giap muon nam !

[BelovedUncleHo]

Happy Birthday Uncle Giap!

[haclong2009]

Thank you !