Canadian's in Vietnam A Tribute

[suzang1]

Canadians did not fight along with the Americans. Canada was there to enforce the 'Paris Peace Accords', to establish peace in Vietnam, ending the Vietnam War and direct U.S. military involvement, and to stop the fighting between North and South Vietnam .

[springer94]

Great video and to all the Vietnam Vets from Canada "Welcome Home"

RLTW'

1/101st Abn Div 67-68

E/20/LRP IFFV 68

[tuter2toot]

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[tuter2toot]

My brother, a Canadian, flew with the 48th AHC Blue Stars. I've been adopted by my other 'brothers' who got to come home and I love each and every one of them. We come from a long line of military. My grandfather rode in the Canadian cavalry, at one time! Dad, RCN; sisters, Navy; husbands military, too. My husband and I met at my 1st USMC base! Semper Fi ev1 and good nite.

[ADCSe8]

So true ...we are all brothers !

.....Welcome home to my brothers and sisters !

[Litterboxer529]

The Canadian Army did not send troops to Vietnam, but people like my graps volunteered to go. Canada was non-belligerent during the Vietnam War.

[420JimmyX]

i really am sorry there are uneducated people commenting saying there were no canadians in vietnam. dont let them bother you. your cousin was a great man.

[TheGuineagirl101]

I am proud of my father who is an American Vietnam vietnam veteran; Canadians are not all peaceful or nice--we sent troops to the second World war and I am proud of them and all of our proud men and women in uniform. Canadians usually joined the US forces by getting a US post box and using that to join the military...later, there was a UN multinational 4 nation group sent to Vietnam in 1974 (?) to retrieve missing men, supervise the peace, as it was and make sure rules were kept.God bless you!

[DrumzzKool]

My brother, a Canadian from Fort Erie, served in the USAF...Vietnam.

TWO TOURS.

Yes...ladies and gentlemen, there were Canucks fightin in the NAM.

For a variety of reasons...

[Bllackguard666]

Thank so much for this. Trying to tell liberals that Canadians went to 'Nam is like talking to a rock. Liberals: Owned. Again.

[99Spinosaurus]

im canadian and my dad was in Vietnam

[Litterboxer529]

My grandpa fought in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne. He married my grandma, got drafted and then my grandma came to Canada for a multitude of reasons. He still had to go there, though, even though he didn't really want to. He went to Canada after.

[Crombo]

Canadians fail to realize that, it simple!

((5 kids went and only 2 came back.

I heard that 2 times by differents viets vets.))

[TheGuilbran78]

i bet the US wouldve won the war if Canada and Britain would've stepped in

after all US+Canada+UK= unstoppable especially during WW2

[KanzlerM]

If the Vietnam war had never occurred, we might have had all out war with the Soviet Union. The Vietnam war may be responsible for the collapse of USSR - if we had just let the communists have S.E. Asia, no one knows where it would have stopped. If Liberal politicians hadn't handcuffed our military, it would have been over and won in 1/5th the time it took to lose (thanks to their idiocy)

[CanadianMilitia1]

fyi, Peter Lemon , born in Toronto, Canada in 1950 won the Medal of Honor in April 1970 during the Vietnam War. This is highest honor given to any branch of service within the U.S military. Also, a friend of mine who is also a Canadian was awarded the Purple Heart when he was in Vietnam.

[Crombo]

Plus, one homeless north -inuit-, I can trust what he told me and I can't. I truly don't care. People can to not believed it, because nothing can prove it.

The last time I drink as junk in small bar. I toll my story to somebody who hardly didn't believe me, about my tour in afghanistan. For him somebody who fought was a kind of superman Indestructible MAN. But in fact, that kid try to prove me something... that never happend. YEap That never happend to him.

[Crombo]

I met 4 of them in montreal city: one broke, one mentally fit as SIR!, One native (red), one never admitted it. (But they have all the same kind of presence... They let me feel always like they are strangers or foreign visitors.) I dont know how to explain it much better. After that kind of work, we become Much more unified within self (or broked) and same time much more foreign from our home land. We did our best over their and become as everyone here... But we will never be as every one here.

[zekeooo2]

its a shame how the canadian legion didnt allow membership for the canadian vietnam vets and the government not recognizing them really sad

[60smode]

My husband was one of these men. So many do not know that our Canadian boys went south to fight this war. It was not a popular war, they received no 'welcome homes', and suffered the after affects....some are still suffering, BUT, they were proud of their contributions and believed they were doing the right thing....fighting communism before it spread and keeping our countries free. God Bless them all.

[Airborne1995]

wait Peter C. Lemon is the the only Canadian born U.S. citizen to be presented the medal for fighting in the Vietnam War. He is the second-youngest living Medal of Honor recipient.

[1988scottcarey]

i do not wish for any war but if there was another war like in vietnam say against.colombia or something and canada didn't support it.bet your ass i'm going and applying to be in the US MARINE CORPS..just to do some damage canadian style in an american fighting unit.

[akropiss]

@1988scottcarey .... why?

[1988scottcarey]

@akropiss Too teach those Commies a Lesson!!

[1234canadian1234]

every1 look up Peter C. Lemon on wiki, please thumbs up i think every1 see this great canadians story

[schizoidboy]

In the book Stolen Valor the author details the fact that more Canadians crossed the border to join the war then those who crossed it, though not all were sent into combat from what I read the numbers that did fight filled up the numbers that dodged the draft crossing the border, something no one talks about.

[henerymag]

I enlisted in Army in Jan. 1967. When others had to sign in to the American Red Cross for notification ( I think ) in case, I was excluded. Got so tiredof explainingwhere I was from to incredulous other guys I just invented an adress in N.Y. city

[TheVampyreCat]

At the war museum in Ottawa it tells you that over 3000 Canadians fought in Vietnam. Which I didn't even know until then (a week and a half ago).

[melroach]

My father spent nine months at the age of eighteen in Vietnam, he was Canadian, it affected him for the rest of his life, they were certainly the silent soldiers.

[2AODX]

you will note the Canadian flag in the presentation..

you wer'nt forgotten..

cheers 2AODX

[thirdmarines]

In 1995, three gentlemen from Michigan donated the "Canadian Vietnam Veterans Memorial" to the Canadian Vietnam Veterans. They went into considerable debt to pay for the Memorial, and went through incredible difficulties to find a suitable site in Canada.

[thirdmarines]

Originally the site for the Memorial was supposed to be in the Ottawa area. However, this was not accomplished and the task to find another location began.

In 1995, the City of Windsor, Ontario was approached by M.A.C.V., and the proposal was presented to the Mayor and to the City Council. Donation of the site was approved by City Council.

[thirdmarines]

The "North Wall" had a home now in the City of Windsor, Ontario, across from Detroit, at Assumption Park on Riverside Drive. On 2 July 1995, the Canadian Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated at an incredible ceremony, with thousands of people in attendance.

[thirdmarines]

Vietnam

An estimated 30,000-40,000 Canadians served in the U.S. Forces in Southeast Asia, 103 died or are missing-in-action [ bodies not recovered

[thirdmarines]

Canadian officials were carrying American ultimatums to Hanoi, arguing America's case on the ICC (International Control Commission), furnishing America with political and military intelligence and publicly supporting American policies in Southeast Asia.

Canada was also selling about $300-million worth of arms and ammunition to the Americans each year, a large if undisclosed portion of this military hardware was being used in Vietnam. Canadian troops would have almost be superfluous.

[thirdmarines]

By 1966 Canada was selling more than $300-million of military materials to the United States a year. Inevitably a great deal of this equipment found its way to Vietnam. Canadian cabinet ministers behaved like a gaggle of Pontius Pilates - disclaiming any responsibility for the way in which the material was used once it passed into American hands.

[thirdmarines]

Their complacency was only slightly shaken when Canadian journalists began to compile lists which showed the extent to which Canadian products were involved in the taking of Vietnamese lives and the destruction of the Vietnamese countryside.

As they dropped their bombs on North Vietnamese towns or seared Southern villages with their rockets and napalm, American planes were often guided by Canadian-made Marconi Doppler Navigation Systems and used bombing computers build in Rexdale, Ontario.

[thirdmarines]

The bombs could have been armed with dynamite shipped from Valleyfield, Quebec; polystyrene, a major component in the napalm, was supplied by Dow Chemical.

Defoliants came from Naugatuck Chemicals in Elmira, Ontario, and air-to-ground rockets were furnished by the Ingersoll Machine and Tool Company.

[thirdmarines]

American infantry and artillery units were supplied by DeHavilland Caribou build at Malton, Ontario.

Less lethal Canadian products included Bata boots for the troops and the famous green berets of the elite Special Forces which came from Dorothea Knitting Mills in Toronto.

Nor were all the profits left to private industry: Canadian Arsenals Ltd., a Crown Corporation, sold small arms, fill for artillery shells, mines, bombs, grenades, torpedo warheads, depth charges and rockets.

[thirdmarines]

Canadian government salesmen drummed up business around the United States and distributed their annual catalogue "Canadian Defence Commodities", which Walter Stewart aptly described as a kind of Warmonger's Shopping Guide.

It was always hypocritical for Canadian ministers to deny responsibility for the ultimate use of these weapons, components and other war materials.

[thirdmarines]

Article 17 of the 1954 Geneva Agreements specifically prohibited the importing of arms into Vietnam. As a member of the ICC, Canada was pledged to enforce that convention. By feeding the American war machine, the Canadian government mocked its obligations and demolished its pretensions to be playing an objective and impartial role in Vietnam.

[thirdmarines]

A little known fact of the history of that controversial war is that for every American citizen who followed their conscience and came to Canada to avoid service, one Canadian citizen followed their conscience, broke Canadian law, and enlisted in the American Armed Forces.

[thirdmarines]

Under the terms of the Canadian Foreign Enlistment Act, it was illegal for Canadian citizens to enlist in the Armed Forces of another country. Canadians who wished to serve in Vietnam had to give an American city as their birthplace in order to enlist.

[thirdmarines]

As a result, at the end of the war, it was not known that a lot of the Canadian casualties were, in fact, Canadian and not American. Those Canadians killed in Vietnam are recognised as Canadians through the research efforts of American veterans of the Vietnam conflict.

[thirdmarines]

A little bit of history about Canadas role in Vietnam.

[karlschlaussen]

karlschlaussen

Canadian Vietnam Veterans have been accepted by the Royal Canadian Legion.I proudly wear my American and Vietnamese medals on Remembrance Day or funerals(I have been a Chaplain for 15 years) Time to come home for all of us who served in Vietnam.

[tim001ca]

I just want to say Thank you.... Thank you so much...

[patricklee1988]

whaat??...jesus, I had no clue Canacks were in ouir ranks at that time a really screwed up time in America. Think about it, Americans who didn't want to fight went either down south to Mexico or up north to Canada. Yet Canadians come to our country and did that. fuck man eh'thanks <:-O

and god bless you guys.

[ElectroMagnetiX]

God Bless the Warrior!!!

[Redmond91]

my father tried going to vietnam but the army already enlisted him in the U.N so he couldnt go good thing he didnt i probibly wouldnt be here if he did

[karlschlaussen]

karlschlaussen

Yes! I am a Canadian who served in the Vietnam War. I volunteered.I believed in the cause of Vietnamese freedom and still do.I am not ashamed of my service and was honorably discharged due to my wounds.

To all detractors with vulgar comments. Please dont disgrace this site with your verbiage. We served with honor,paid the price and only seek our right to be proud of our service.The video is a great venue for truth. Please do not violate it.

'Nam Vet and Proud of My Service"!

[karlschlaussen]

karlschlaussen

We seem to have a monopoly of left-wing apologists on this site. Trudeau was their hero regarding Vietnam but did not act upon pequiste terror at home until innocent blood was spilled. As for those Canadians who served in Vietnam, lighten up we served for many reasons,we are proud of our service.

[SobmiJ]

They are not all idiots they are just misinformed. Thank you for your sacrifice, words can not desribe true heros and true heros you are. Thank you Semper-Fi

[thirdmarines]

Before the United States was involved with World War Two, thousands of Americans went north to serve in the Canadian Armed Forces. It's all in the History Books. I am very proud to have served with the USMC. I was treated just like any other Marine. Your nationality did not matter. One in particular "DEXTRAZE RICHARD PAUL" LCPL MARINES - Ottawa Canada was KIA 23APRIL 1969 S.VIETNAM. At that time his father was chief of staff for the Canadian Armed Forces.

[CAFCMike]

To the nay sayers, your right Trudeau was a great prime minister, but a few facts to clear up, im not an american, i am canadain, canadians did go to vietnam no matter how much your small minded views want to say otherwise, and for those who want to disgrace the memory my cousin, go fuck yourselves... i dont need you to tell me your idiotic views on a subject you know nothing about. i know he was there this video is in no way promoting the war its ideas or anything of the sort.

[CAFCMike]

this videos purpose was to expose to the simple minded shits like yourselves the truth that canadians fought in a war that was not ours, under a flag that was not ours, while americans ran to canada to escape it we passed them and fought in their place

. this video is for them, not you so again if you still doubt the truth then i feel sorry for you all how sad your lives must be

[CAFCMike]

. You want research? go to a vietnam vet, american or canadian and tell them the war didnt happen, canadians never fought with them...see what happens to you what response you get. and to the one who thinks 40,000 is exaggerated again call the royal canadian legion, ask them for the info...better yet call the canadians in vietnam society or even better, call the pow-mia association...

[v00d00d011]

wonder who's narrow minded now?

Look up the Pharmacradic Inquisition and The Illuminate. Lets see how open minded you are..

Youre obviously missing something..

I'm done here, you offend me when you use Nam and Canadians in the same sentence.

[marmaloon]

I know who you are, you are a punk-ass boy.

[1234canadian1234]

@CAFCMike Peter C. Lemon, if only he was their for WW2 with the canadians

[thirdmarines]

I was in the Royal Canadian Regiment for three years. I went south like so many other Canadians to enlist in the USMC. I was in Mike Company 3/3, served up North at Dong-Ha, Con Thien, and other fire bases. Those that were there know what war is like. So if you haven't been there it's better to leave your opinions to yourselves. Semper-FI - Thanks for the video. It sure brings back memories. Rick

[thirdmarines]

Hey CAFCMike, there is no way you or I can convince this generation about Canadians being in Vietnam. I know your cousin was there, I was there, and thousands of others Canadians were there. I think there may be a few war protesters or draft dodgers who are taking up valuable space here. My case is closed. Rick

[karlschlaussen]

karlschlaussen

We all served for different reasons. No Canada was not involved in the war but Canadians DID serve and served with honor and distinction.I am a Vietnam Veteran and no longer afraid to admit it.Time for us all to finally "come home" so the flashbacks can finally end.

[karlschlaussen]

karlschlaussen

WELCOME HOME BUDDY!Thanks for serving!

My T shirt says it all. "We were winning when I left"

[marmaloon]

I see the punk put his tail between his legs and disappeared lol. I know of 2 people personally who served, one who was a sniper and taught with the sniper cell; I knew him professionally (slightly) the other one was also professionally but only incidentally, he was working as a cleaner and his stories he told me just could not be made up under any circumstances and he was about the proper age. I also know of one Mikmaq (Cape Breton) helicopter pilot killed in the fighting

[marmaloon]

I also have a good friend who is also Micmaq/Mowhawk, whose older brother was killed in the fighting (was really hard on the family) god bless them all.

[thirdmarines]

I have a good friend in the Kahnawake reservation, Montreal, who served in Vietnam. his name is Aurther Diablo.

[marmaloon]

I really wish the US Gov't would come out with the official stats on who served and where they came from and who suffered casualties. I think it would help in the healing process for all the volunteers who fought. Good night all!

[thirdmarines]

I signed up in the U.S. Marines in 1968 in Boston Mass: If I was kia in Vietnam, they would of inscribed Boston on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, the recruiting center where I signed up. That goes for all Canadians who enlisted in any State. They would not put our Canadian home adress. We have a memorial in Windsor Ontario Canada where all the Canadians who died and those who are MIA. Hope this helps. Rick

[karlschlaussen]

karlschlaussen

Thanks for the "thumbs up" I served in 'Nam 1 9/67 to 5/5/68. WIA in that date returned 1/7/68 with a crushed chest and fused neck. Would re-up un a heartbeat for Afganistan but age and wounds do not permit. I served because I knew the real facts by working with the Vietnamese community in Montreal most of whom were real patriots. As for the cowards. SIN LOI !!!

[thirdmarines]

Glad you made it home. Hope your doing ok

[akropiss]

@CAFCMike so many wars we've been in that we play off or call a technicality, Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa, South Asia, the Crimean war etc.

[UNSOF]

canadian forces weren't there officially, if canadians were there, they joined the american military on there own. thats all there is too it, canada deployed no forces of its own military at all.

[thirdmarines]

Your right when you say Canadian Forces weren't there officially. Canadians went south to enlist on there own free will.

Among the volunteers were fifty Mohawks from the Kahnawake reservation near Montreal. One-hundred-and-ten Canadians died in Vietnam, and seven remain listed as Missing in Action. Canadian Peter C. Lemon won the U.S. Medal of Honor for his valour in the conflict.)

[UNSOF]

how difficult is it for a canadian to join the u.s. military?

[thirdmarines]

Back then the U.S. would pretty well accept anybody if you were in pretty good health. The normal training period for a Marine is sixteen weeks. It was cut in half due to the many casualties in Vietnam. I spent only eight weeks at Parris Island, eight weeks at Camp Leugune, and eight weeks at Camp Pendleton, California. Now you have to have a pretty good education to join any branch of the U.S. Forces. As technology grows there is much more training involved and classroom work. Rick

[UNSOF]

The Canadian Armed Forces had no role in Vietnam except allowing U.S. Special Forces to test out Agent Orange at CFB Gander. If Canadians fought in Vietnam, they did it with a U.S. Army uniform on.

[fcirc]

When you do your research, you start to see the bullshit.

From what Ive learnt, that war shouldn't have happened, and was about money etc. Are you seriously proud of that?

[UNSOF]

lol learnt = learned. you are canadian!

[poyani]

I even strongly doubt the truthfulness of the description of this video. CAFMike is probably some American underling of Coultergeist trying to save the last shreds of legitimacy his queen has left (oops too late).

[poyani]

There were also Canadians (of German origin) who went back to Germany and fought for the Nazis in WWII. Doesn't mean Canada fought on the Axis side in WWII. Those people did what they did as Germans, not Canadians, and much like you cousin, got what they deserved.

BTW you Coulterites should remember that Coultergeist didn't say that Canadians fought in the Vietnam war. Show said CANADA fought in the Vietnam war. Typical Coultergeist nonsense blabber.

[poyani]

3. Your cousin got what he deserved for trying to bolster the continuation of French colonialism. However, taking this video as evidence of the level intellect running through your family then I would say that Canada did not lose much.

[poyani]

To the retard who put this up.

1. "Canadian's" means belonging to Canadian, it is not the plural of Canadian.

2. NO CANADIAN FOUGHT IN THE VIETNAM WAR. Dual-citizens fought, but only under an American flag. If you think Canadians were deployed to Vietnam under Trudeau, who was an anti-American French-Canadians (best PM ever) then you are smoking some bad grass.

[v00d00d011]

Youre just as stupid as Ann Coulter.. Shut up idiot and go back to school.

[TRyrEaDtHiS]

Sorry, But Canada was involved in Vietnam, plain and simple. You are the one who should learn your facts.

[TRyrEaDtHiS]

Great video, nice to see these forgotten Canadians remembered. Everyone saying Canada was not involved in Vietnam is truely a dumb-ass, Canada was involved in 'Nam. We sold weapons and supplies to the US, 40,000 Canadian jumped the border, Canada sent peacekeepers in '73, We also trained some Japanese Guerrillas. There, proof we were involved in 'Nam. Awesome video again.

[poyani]

We forgot them for a reason. Fucking traitors!!

[TRyrEaDtHiS]

How are they traitors? Helping our brothers to the South is traitorous now.

[UNSOF]

relax ass hole! americans are great people and have extremely good armed forces and soldiers and im canadian! they help us, we help them.

[thirdmarines]

EXCELLENT!! Canadian peace keepers were in Hanoi before the war got under way. Glad to have served with the U.S.M.C Mike Company 3/3 Vietnam service 68-69

[TRyrEaDtHiS]

Thank You and all other Vietnam Veterans for their Service and Sacrifice!

Lest We Forget.

[thirdmarines]

Your 100% right.

[thirdmarines]

karlschlaussen glad you made it home.

[NuclearCrisis]

"Bullshit Video! Canadians didnt fight in nam asshole"

According to this form of thinking anyone who is outside of Canada is no longer Canadian.....

The Canadian ARMY didn't go to Vietnam but CANADIANS did fight, as the video and historical facts clearly state. Go back to your room and don't open the door until mommy comes up with dinner.

Nice Video CAFCMike not many like this out there, and their should be more recognition.

[poyani]

Anyone putting on a US uniform is representing the US in battle. His/her actions cannot, under any circumstances, be attributed to Canada.

[v00d00d011]

Bullshit Video! Canadians didnt fight in nam asshole

[CAFCMike]

really? oh i guess your right, i guess i just made up the fact that 40,000+ Canadians were fighting in US uniforms, i guess its all a lie a huge elaborate scheme with MEMORIALS and MEDALS OF HONOR given out to FAKE canadian soldiers...what a hoaxe...Dumbass do your research before commenting on a subject you know NOTHING ABOUT!

[fcirc]

some people went to fight "Someone Else's War" you do your fucking research. Don't imply Canadians had anything to do with nam, you ass kissing American.

You should be ashamed, a Canadian promoting other peoples war. Fuck you and fuck Ann Coulter. Canada is about peace and helping others, here you are uploading crap.

[CAFCMike]

what are you 10? did your daddy tell you all this misinformation? wow....so what your basicly doing is calling 40,000 Canadians a bunch of liars and disgracing their memory...how sad are you little boy....id like to see you tell one of the vets who served in vietnam that no candians were by his side...better yet tell a canadian vet who served...see how long you last you simple minded nymph

[poyani]

How can you disgrace the memory of such traitorous scum? These imperialists got what they deserved. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau kept Canada out of the Vietnam war and god bless him for that. He was our greatest PM and these 40,000 (exaggerated) you refer to are disgracing his memory.

[pteJames]

@v00d00d011 My Uncle who was born In Quebec Died In Nam How dare you dishonor Him< Canadian's Fought and Died There!!!!

[cf80to01]

@v00d00d011 30,000+ Canadians joined the US military and fought in Vietnam. Though they did not fight wearing Canadian uniforms, they were, nonetheless, Canadians.

[fcirc]

bullshit! Canadians didnt fight asshole

[CAFCMike]

wow, how uneducated you are....people like you give the rest of us a bad name....do your research before you make stupid comments

[cgssssm]

@CAFCMike Not just in this war, but what about the 1000's that faught under Lee's Forgien Hord and Lincoln's Northern Army in the American Civil War, not celebrated here cuz it's off the books from the Canadian Gov't, monuments stand in the French Quarters of Louisianna for instance. People need to educate themselves and no just depend on the school system, great video.