I was a medic in VietNam.....I saw a post from someone saying , funny we had Cobra's back then....laughing, then, they were the TOP Attack Helicopter....I look at the Cobra's of today, and see how they have gotten beefier , ....if you will.....I"ve always liked seeing those helicopters flying all over the countryside.......
This war was the biggest mistake America made during the Cold War (just like Iraq was the biggest mistake after the Cold War). Not only that the war killed a lot of American soldiers and spawned a lot of hatred towards the US military, but it also sucked a lot of resources that should've been used for the US mainland defense. For building more powerful ICBMs, ABM systems, more numerous and better tanks. Stuff like that. It was the Soviet Union who was America's enemy, not Vietnam.
After French lost DienBienPhu in 1954, HoChiMinh opened Land Reform in 1955, Ho bastard killed 750,000 innocent civilians, because they were rich, vast land, big house and gold. Later uncle HoChiMinh pushed one million young men to fright in the South, during TET 1968 Ho ordered to kill and bury a live 5,000 Hue citizens.
I, too, am sorry that the Republic of Vietnam fell to the tanks and soldiers of Communist North Vietnam. The Vietnamese people, north and south, deserve better than to live under Communism and in a Communist state. That is what the US-led Allied forces were trying to do, to stop Communism spreading in Vietnam and to give at least the people of South Vietnam a chance to live under something better than a stifling, cruel and moribund totalitarian ideology and state that is Communism.
Vietnam just taught us once and for all that the communists could not be beat utilizing military tactics and hardware. Our attempts were unsuccessful. So we tried Plan Two; we outspent them. It worked. We should have tried that in the first place. I think we can be successful in our war against terror without using the military. We just need to figure out a Plan Two like we did with communism. No?
@ThePleiku10 No form of government seems to prevail for long. The USA has one of the longest running, but for some reason, people in our country are contemplating communism. For what good purpose, I cannot fathom. If it is brought to pass, it too will pass away, albeit far quicker than our democracy.
Americans always give the most they can in wars,the numbers we lost in Veitnam shows we did our best thats all I could ask for,I thank all our allies that helped,I just wish we could have saved them for the Communits.
poberts666 Please dont call me a fool. Again, a heart felt THANK YOU to every American and our allies who fought in this war! You won every major battle but you couldnt teach them to fight for themselves. Remember the saying, "want to buy a south vietnamese rifle? Never fired and only dropped once"!
I just want to say THANK YOU to every American, UK, Canandian, ROK, Australian and New Zealander who fought in this war and tried to teach the south to stand up and fight for themselves to no avail. You won but the south didnt.
@baine319 I know that the My Lai Massacre, whas a descrace to the US but, that's the fault of that unit not the entire army, is like everything in the world there's always a black sheep in the flock.
@baine319 No, the US ARMY gets involved because as the most powerfull nation it's it duty to maintain peace and order. Imagine if they had abandoned there asian allies heaven knows how much power would the Vietnam communist could have gained.
i came back from Vietnam a month ago today, i am glad i went there. the people are nice, there is no rush, everything flows and yes there is poverty but look at every country in the world. there is poverty everywhere and it would take many years for people to forget war and think of fixing our earth up.
By the way i am an australian and the vietnamese welcomed me the same way they would for anyone, even american.
i think you all are wrong, we vietnam doesnt want war, we vietnamese doesnt want to be communist, we were force to choose what is good for our land, if you all look , back at history uncle went to america to ask president wilson for help from the french , america did not care, so we turn to other nation for help, turn to people that offer a helping hand, our land was divided into two , because america did not like russia dont blame us, we just wanted to become a free land
@thaR3ardon US never entered the war to try and create the greatest number of casualties. You come off sounding like an ignorant fool. If that was the goal, they could just have arch lighted the whole of North Vietnam at the start of the war. Instead the goal was to try and decrease the influence of the communists in Vietnam and unite Vietnam under democracy - which failed miserably...
US actually did their best to try and keep casualties (friendly and foe) at a minimum.
@Twiiik I totally agree, but all these hard headed left wing liberals seem to think that whenever there is a war declared and fought it is immediately unjust based on little factual evidence ahha
@thaR3ardon Let's get it right again shall we? The U.S.A. also got it wrong in Somalia as well (Black hawk Down, infact it was two Black hawks) Once again they had to retreat with tails between legs, somehow the U.S. love to glorify defeats. Gen, Armstrong Custer was somewhat an optimist when surrounded by thousand's of true american's (OTHERWISE KNOW AS REDSKINS) the last order he gave to his sergeant was " Remember sergeant take no prisoners!! What a fool he was! just like Gen;Westmoreland.
@MrLIENDRES only a fool and the army use surplus crap like the m4 nowadays We have more effective ammunition and more reliable hardware now so , go grab yer kalashnikov n lets have us another try @ commi vs capital mmkay?
And though so I will say I am glad to be home safe , never a witness to the war that happened 35-55 years ago respectively, I am also constantly wondering about it and what it would have been like to fight in that conflict. Sometimes I find I wish I could have, others I really do thank god I wasn't around and American to that extent as I likely would have joined the army, draft or no draft.
I could have very well died there like many brave men did , and still are.. *( see Staff Sergeant John Andrew Thorburn , recently deceased of cancer and whom lost 2 of 7 children to Agent Orange ... Father of the Legendary R.A. the Rugged man of Wu Tang fame... Ask him about that, the soldiers who are still dying today due to U.S. combat action in 'nam )
Cobras , napalm and flamethrowers destroyed hamlets, entire families and villages killed in the name of attrition and body counts to supress the NLF and NVA forces... But don't get me wrong, I imagine I would have fought in 'nam if I was my age ( 20 ) back around the 60's...
Let's get it right shall we, the U.S.thought that it would be a walk in the park to kick out the communist. And how wrong they were, the lost the war!! yet they still think that they are the best,(fools)
@soulleskill SHUT THE FUCK UP KID DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY MEN AND WOMEN DIED FOR THE WRITES OF THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE AND YOUR WRITING THIS SHIT DOWN THIS IS NO JOKE JACKASS I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU DO WHAT THESE MEN DID FOR VIETNAM AND MAYBE YOULL RETHINK ABOUT WHAT YOU SAID ASSHOLE
The book of flying a combat helicopter was written in Vietnam. Those machines were not meant for what those guys did to them, with their brothers on the ground those machines did what their pilots told them to do. If nothing else US aviation taught the rest of the world how to operate a chopper....some of those pilots acted like the 9/11 fireman and I respect that fully! True Blue Heroes,no matter whitch way you cut it
@a4skyraider Have you read the book "Apache Sunrise" by Jerome Boyle he was a great friend of my Fathers in country 1971, Jerry did 3 tours flying Cobra's. I think he has the Silver Star plus many more, my Dad was in the Australian Army and Dad flew with Jerry quite a bit from FSB Bear Cat and Nui Dat, I too have heaps of film, this is great stuff.
@a4skyraider Of the many video clips I have seen from the war, this one has touched me more than most. So many mixed feelings about the war, the impressions that will never go away.
The haunting loneliness that accompanies the loss of a friend, the unknowns of what you will do if the war continues past your 18th birthday, the impressions stored inside one's head of almost a decade of viewing the war on television. I'm glad you made it home. Thank you for your film and your service.
Face it, Vietnamese communist party cared nothing for the people of Vietnam nor Indochina for that matter, they only carried about power, how to increase it, how to get it at the expense of the innocent people they stole it from. Communists do nothing for the welfare of a country, they just destroy it like they destroye South Vietnam,Cambodia and Laos. Let alone where they came from North Vietnam. Now the land is destroyed, the people deformed and dirt poor. A perfect power base for communists
@xuixuanxui do you think the american govt. cared about the vietnamese people? they didn't even care about their own people. students killed for protesting. leaders assassinated. gain some perspective......fool.
It's not like America's agenda was much better. The US shouldn't have interfered with Vietnamese politics, especially after they crushed the French colonials a few years earlier.
@Br0ckR0cket the americans didn't want dien bien phu to fall into communist chinese hands, that was the mekong river delta "rice heaven" that could have fueled chinese stomachs and could very well have made communism powerful enough to still exist today... You and I are damn lucky the chinese are imperialist now, since the United states owes them about seven trillion dollars, literally.
@xuixuanxui alot of that "the people are now poor" had to do with the cold war itself and the combat between chinese backed viet minh and the NVA vs the United states Army and Marine forces that sought to "actively seek and destroy communist forces and all those who support them" for a decade and change...
@xuixuanxui Face it if you haven't been shoot at you don't know shit! When you are are benig shot at nothing matters but stying alive nobody's politics enter into your mind. I served two tours on c-130's did air droppes in AN Loc on a soccer fireld and the battle for Hue in 72 and landed on Phu Luc (fuck you) moutain. Believe me i wasn't thinking of politics then. I was thinking of stayiing alive
@xuixuanxui Face it if you haven't been shoot at you don't know shit! When you are are benig shot at nothing matters but staying alive nobody's politics enter into your mind. I served two tours on c-130's did air droppes in AN Loc on a soccer fireld and the battle for Hue in 72 and landed on Phu Luc (fuck you) moutain. Believe me i wasn't thinking of politics then. I was thinking of stayiing alive
@xuixuanxui You must be a Viet or the offspring of one who ran away. You have listened to too much propaganda from those runaways. My family stayed, were put into reeducation camps, survived had kids who have had kids. The country is better off now than under the old regime.They have medical help,the aged are looked after,my nephews and grand nephews and nieces all went to school. From what I can gather they are not rabid communists there. Are you in the U.S.?
@50poiuyt Vietnam Of the South and its innocent democratic citizens who had been invaded in its houses for murderous Communists of the Vietnam of the North. They had been vietcongs murderous that they had killed innocents in the Vietnam of the South
50POIUYT IS VIETCONG CRIMINAL WAR
50POIUYT IS COMUNIST KILLED INNOCENTS IN THE VIETNAM OF THE SOUTH - Freedom Vietnam - Democracy for Vietnam . SAT CONG
South Vietnam after the US left, after a peace treaty was signed with the US and South Vietnam and North Vietnam. American people felt that Vietnam was a dirty little shithole, that North Vietnamese were murdering communist bastards that were not worth the piss it took to fill their mouths. So we left and North Vietnam betrayed everybody to conquer the South. Now they live in shit.
@50poiuyt Vietnam Of the South and its innocent democratic citizens who had been invaded in its houses for murderous Communists of the Vietnam of the North. They had been vietcongs murderous that they had killed innocents in the Vietnam of the South
50POIUYT IS VIETCONG CRIMINAL WAR
50POIUYT IS COMUNIST KILLED INNOCENTS IN THE VIETNAM OF THE SOUTH - FREEDOM VIETNAM - DEMOCRACY FOR VIETNAM - SAT CONG
Peterm....one of our hooch maids at Vinh Long in 68 would tell us guys to "kill cong". I asked her why she said that and she said her husband was a village chief and the vc wanted him to help them...he refused; so they killed him in front of the whole village. That's why we were there, to stop the fucking commie murderers!
The Vietnam War, it was a special time back in 68-75 i remember i saw nearly the whole war on TV. When im thinking back on that time its like it has a kind of weird touch, how? because i remember clearly some stuff i did while it was there. When i saw the news about how the war was about to accelrate or slow down(Kissinger said America were about to win the war) every day its like it was a part of me. The whole war was like a play for those of us who could watch it on TV.
Had the US not intervened in Vietnam in 50s communists would have gone further to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore. SVN & US stopped communists at 17th parallel for 20 years. During this time, the crack between Russia & China became wider. After 75, proxy war between Russia and China fought in Cambodia. The domino effect stopped because communists fought each other
@lechinhluan Bravo, why is it that when someone speaks the inner truth of a complex issue to its rudimentery evolution, people react like a monkey in a tree fighting another for a banana? Just accept this fact and maybe you can see that the US did a great job stopping the communists at a time when the end could not be envisioned. At least not like what really happened, the fall of the Soviet Union.
Ask anyone who was in the shit in Vietnam . They 'll tell you . It was insanity .
Pointless insanity . A war with no reason against an invisible enemy . much like the phantom terrorists who haunt the dreams of tv news reporters today .
I was a medic in VietNam.....I saw a post from someone saying , funny we had Cobra's back then....laughing, then, they were the TOP Attack Helicopter....I look at the Cobra's of today, and see how they have gotten beefier , ....if you will.....I"ve always liked seeing those helicopters flying all over the countryside.......
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olehippy13 1 week ago
This war was the biggest mistake America made during the Cold War (just like Iraq was the biggest mistake after the Cold War). Not only that the war killed a lot of American soldiers and spawned a lot of hatred towards the US military, but it also sucked a lot of resources that should've been used for the US mainland defense. For building more powerful ICBMs, ABM systems, more numerous and better tanks. Stuff like that. It was the Soviet Union who was America's enemy, not Vietnam.
StiviGun1 2 weeks ago
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After French lost DienBienPhu in 1954, HoChiMinh opened Land Reform in 1955, Ho bastard killed 750,000 innocent civilians, because they were rich, vast land, big house and gold. Later uncle HoChiMinh pushed one million young men to fright in the South, during TET 1968 Ho ordered to kill and bury a live 5,000 Hue citizens.
thoyedao 2 weeks ago
God bless the souls of those who died
12BAYman 3 months ago
Funny how we had Cobras back then too.
KingKrabb999 4 months ago
I, too, am sorry that the Republic of Vietnam fell to the tanks and soldiers of Communist North Vietnam. The Vietnamese people, north and south, deserve better than to live under Communism and in a Communist state. That is what the US-led Allied forces were trying to do, to stop Communism spreading in Vietnam and to give at least the people of South Vietnam a chance to live under something better than a stifling, cruel and moribund totalitarian ideology and state that is Communism.
toadster58 4 months ago 2
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toadster58 4 months ago
honor and respect to all those who tussled with the denacious nva and vietcong in nam!
mikefan09 4 months ago
Militarily, we won. Politically, we were fucked in the ass.
DanBell47 4 months ago
Vietnam just taught us once and for all that the communists could not be beat utilizing military tactics and hardware. Our attempts were unsuccessful. So we tried Plan Two; we outspent them. It worked. We should have tried that in the first place. I think we can be successful in our war against terror without using the military. We just need to figure out a Plan Two like we did with communism. No?
TheChuck624 4 months ago
The Vietnamese have survived 5000 years of invasions, communism will not prevail! to all the men who served there, thank you!
ThePleiku10 4 months ago 4
@ThePleiku10 No form of government seems to prevail for long. The USA has one of the longest running, but for some reason, people in our country are contemplating communism. For what good purpose, I cannot fathom. If it is brought to pass, it too will pass away, albeit far quicker than our democracy.
emeraldseagull 4 months ago
May God Bless the souls of those that wandered onto that hell, may shame be on those that forget and condemn
SpokenTruf 5 months ago 2
I'm sorry I spelled Canadian incorrectly in my previous post. My grade school teachers are probably spinning in their graves!
michaelj1955 5 months ago
Americans always give the most they can in wars,the numbers we lost in Veitnam shows we did our best thats all I could ask for,I thank all our allies that helped,I just wish we could have saved them for the Communits.
jacobwolf124 6 months ago 2
@jacobwolf124 amen .
JaayKillahDuzEht 5 months ago
poberts666 Please dont call me a fool. Again, a heart felt THANK YOU to every American and our allies who fought in this war! You won every major battle but you couldnt teach them to fight for themselves. Remember the saying, "want to buy a south vietnamese rifle? Never fired and only dropped once"!
michaelj1955 6 months ago
I just want to say THANK YOU to every American, UK, Canandian, ROK, Australian and New Zealander who fought in this war and tried to teach the south to stand up and fight for themselves to no avail. You won but the south didnt.
michaelj1955 7 months ago 3
Amen for a great but sad post...My thoughts and prayers till this day are with you all past and present....
shadowcat287 8 months ago
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timjessa1 9 months ago 2
@baine319 I know that the My Lai Massacre, whas a descrace to the US but, that's the fault of that unit not the entire army, is like everything in the world there's always a black sheep in the flock.
ben7488 10 months ago
The US army only got involved as it fears Communism.
baine319 11 months ago
@baine319 No, the US ARMY gets involved because as the most powerfull nation it's it duty to maintain peace and order. Imagine if they had abandoned there asian allies heaven knows how much power would the Vietnam communist could have gained.
"Ranger's Lead The Way"
"Semper Fi"
"Hooah"
ben7488 10 months ago
cool this is back when the army ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING
emobrian212 11 months ago
The first song is really beautiful. I'm not sure if it is all the same song but just changes or what, but that's nice.
pocu321 11 months ago
i came back from Vietnam a month ago today, i am glad i went there. the people are nice, there is no rush, everything flows and yes there is poverty but look at every country in the world. there is poverty everywhere and it would take many years for people to forget war and think of fixing our earth up.
By the way i am an australian and the vietnamese welcomed me the same way they would for anyone, even american.
bambambow 1 year ago
i think you all are wrong, we vietnam doesnt want war, we vietnamese doesnt want to be communist, we were force to choose what is good for our land, if you all look , back at history uncle went to america to ask president wilson for help from the french , america did not care, so we turn to other nation for help, turn to people that offer a helping hand, our land was divided into two , because america did not like russia dont blame us, we just wanted to become a free land
corollatime 1 year ago
@thaR3ardon US never entered the war to try and create the greatest number of casualties. You come off sounding like an ignorant fool. If that was the goal, they could just have arch lighted the whole of North Vietnam at the start of the war. Instead the goal was to try and decrease the influence of the communists in Vietnam and unite Vietnam under democracy - which failed miserably...
US actually did their best to try and keep casualties (friendly and foe) at a minimum.
Twiiik 1 year ago
@Twiiik I totally agree, but all these hard headed left wing liberals seem to think that whenever there is a war declared and fought it is immediately unjust based on little factual evidence ahha
thedicklick1 1 year ago
@thaR3ardon OK young man you have a nice day too, remember we should learn from history, but first we should know what our history is!
TheNathanalex 1 year ago
@thaR3ardon Let's get it right again shall we? The U.S.A. also got it wrong in Somalia as well (Black hawk Down, infact it was two Black hawks) Once again they had to retreat with tails between legs, somehow the U.S. love to glorify defeats. Gen, Armstrong Custer was somewhat an optimist when surrounded by thousand's of true american's (OTHERWISE KNOW AS REDSKINS) the last order he gave to his sergeant was " Remember sergeant take no prisoners!! What a fool he was! just like Gen;Westmoreland.
TheNathanalex 1 year ago
God Bless the Troops & F*CK the Politicians.
Ronbo710 1 year ago
@MrLIENDRES only a fool and the army use surplus crap like the m4 nowadays We have more effective ammunition and more reliable hardware now so , go grab yer kalashnikov n lets have us another try @ commi vs capital mmkay?
*( 6.8 Remington SPC, 6.5 Grendel, .50 Beowulf, .416 barett )
GodlessMartyr666 1 year ago
And though so I will say I am glad to be home safe , never a witness to the war that happened 35-55 years ago respectively, I am also constantly wondering about it and what it would have been like to fight in that conflict. Sometimes I find I wish I could have, others I really do thank god I wasn't around and American to that extent as I likely would have joined the army, draft or no draft.
GodlessMartyr666 1 year ago
I could have very well died there like many brave men did , and still are.. *( see Staff Sergeant John Andrew Thorburn , recently deceased of cancer and whom lost 2 of 7 children to Agent Orange ... Father of the Legendary R.A. the Rugged man of Wu Tang fame... Ask him about that, the soldiers who are still dying today due to U.S. combat action in 'nam )
GodlessMartyr666 1 year ago
Cobras , napalm and flamethrowers destroyed hamlets, entire families and villages killed in the name of attrition and body counts to supress the NLF and NVA forces... But don't get me wrong, I imagine I would have fought in 'nam if I was my age ( 20 ) back around the 60's...
GodlessMartyr666 1 year ago
Let's get it right shall we, the U.S.thought that it would be a walk in the park to kick out the communist. And how wrong they were, the lost the war!! yet they still think that they are the best,(fools)
TheNathanalex 1 year ago
@nighthawk006 Well said!! This applies to Communism anywhere!!
bigleb311 1 year ago
@soulleskill SHUT THE FUCK UP KID DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY MEN AND WOMEN DIED FOR THE WRITES OF THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE AND YOUR WRITING THIS SHIT DOWN THIS IS NO JOKE JACKASS I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU DO WHAT THESE MEN DID FOR VIETNAM AND MAYBE YOULL RETHINK ABOUT WHAT YOU SAID ASSHOLE
FLYINGCOWMAN123 1 year ago
The book of flying a combat helicopter was written in Vietnam. Those machines were not meant for what those guys did to them, with their brothers on the ground those machines did what their pilots told them to do. If nothing else US aviation taught the rest of the world how to operate a chopper....some of those pilots acted like the 9/11 fireman and I respect that fully! True Blue Heroes,no matter whitch way you cut it
goonerfromjhb 1 year ago
I like this era, better than todays.
kalltvatten 1 year ago
I beleive there is a lot of amateur 8mm Vietnam war footage .. which needs to be put on youtube for everybody
ww2footage 1 year ago
thank you
Phllufy 1 year ago
The name of this song, for those who wrote me is:
"Future Written" by Medwyn Goodall
a4skyraider
a4skyraider 1 year ago 6
@a4skyraider Have you read the book "Apache Sunrise" by Jerome Boyle he was a great friend of my Fathers in country 1971, Jerry did 3 tours flying Cobra's. I think he has the Silver Star plus many more, my Dad was in the Australian Army and Dad flew with Jerry quite a bit from FSB Bear Cat and Nui Dat, I too have heaps of film, this is great stuff.
Thanks
Mark
pusserswar 1 year ago
@a4skyraider Of the many video clips I have seen from the war, this one has touched me more than most. So many mixed feelings about the war, the impressions that will never go away.
The haunting loneliness that accompanies the loss of a friend, the unknowns of what you will do if the war continues past your 18th birthday, the impressions stored inside one's head of almost a decade of viewing the war on television. I'm glad you made it home. Thank you for your film and your service.
dbharcadia2 1 year ago
What is the name of this beautiful song ???
partizan116 1 year ago
I like this video. But, can someone tell me what song is this? I like am wondering.
Phllufy 1 year ago
Face it, Vietnamese communist party cared nothing for the people of Vietnam nor Indochina for that matter, they only carried about power, how to increase it, how to get it at the expense of the innocent people they stole it from. Communists do nothing for the welfare of a country, they just destroy it like they destroye South Vietnam,Cambodia and Laos. Let alone where they came from North Vietnam. Now the land is destroyed, the people deformed and dirt poor. A perfect power base for communists
xuixuanxui 1 year ago 30
@xuixuanxui do you think the american govt. cared about the vietnamese people? they didn't even care about their own people. students killed for protesting. leaders assassinated. gain some perspective......fool.
kaizy1 1 year ago
@xuixuanxui
It's not like America's agenda was much better. The US shouldn't have interfered with Vietnamese politics, especially after they crushed the French colonials a few years earlier.
Br0ckR0cket 1 year ago
@Br0ckR0cket the americans didn't want dien bien phu to fall into communist chinese hands, that was the mekong river delta "rice heaven" that could have fueled chinese stomachs and could very well have made communism powerful enough to still exist today... You and I are damn lucky the chinese are imperialist now, since the United states owes them about seven trillion dollars, literally.
GodlessMartyr666 1 year ago
@xuixuanxui alot of that "the people are now poor" had to do with the cold war itself and the combat between chinese backed viet minh and the NVA vs the United states Army and Marine forces that sought to "actively seek and destroy communist forces and all those who support them" for a decade and change...
GodlessMartyr666 1 year ago
@xuixuanxui Face it if you haven't been shoot at you don't know shit! When you are are benig shot at nothing matters but stying alive nobody's politics enter into your mind. I served two tours on c-130's did air droppes in AN Loc on a soccer fireld and the battle for Hue in 72 and landed on Phu Luc (fuck you) moutain. Believe me i wasn't thinking of politics then. I was thinking of stayiing alive
festus51 1 year ago
@xuixuanxui Face it if you haven't been shoot at you don't know shit! When you are are benig shot at nothing matters but staying alive nobody's politics enter into your mind. I served two tours on c-130's did air droppes in AN Loc on a soccer fireld and the battle for Hue in 72 and landed on Phu Luc (fuck you) moutain. Believe me i wasn't thinking of politics then. I was thinking of stayiing alive
festus51 1 year ago
@xuixuanxui Why do you think Russia is democratic now? They stopped their communism in 1989.
99thJediWarrior 6 months ago
@xuixuanxui true!
DiesesMax 5 months ago
@xuixuanxui You must be a Viet or the offspring of one who ran away. You have listened to too much propaganda from those runaways. My family stayed, were put into reeducation camps, survived had kids who have had kids. The country is better off now than under the old regime.They have medical help,the aged are looked after,my nephews and grand nephews and nieces all went to school. From what I can gather they are not rabid communists there. Are you in the U.S.?
18tangles 4 months ago
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@50poiuyt Vietnam Of the South and its innocent democratic citizens who had been invaded in its houses for murderous Communists of the Vietnam of the North. They had been vietcongs murderous that they had killed innocents in the Vietnam of the South
50POIUYT IS VIETCONG CRIMINAL WAR
50POIUYT IS COMUNIST KILLED INNOCENTS IN THE VIETNAM OF THE SOUTH - Freedom Vietnam - Democracy for Vietnam . SAT CONG
pedrolegion 1 year ago
@50poiuyt Yes, they won against
South Vietnam after the US left, after a peace treaty was signed with the US and South Vietnam and North Vietnam. American people felt that Vietnam was a dirty little shithole, that North Vietnamese were murdering communist bastards that were not worth the piss it took to fill their mouths. So we left and North Vietnam betrayed everybody to conquer the South. Now they live in shit.
xuixuanxui 1 year ago 19
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@50poiuyt Vietnam Of the South and its innocent democratic citizens who had been invaded in its houses for murderous Communists of the Vietnam of the North. They had been vietcongs murderous that they had killed innocents in the Vietnam of the South
50POIUYT IS VIETCONG CRIMINAL WAR
50POIUYT IS COMUNIST KILLED INNOCENTS IN THE VIETNAM OF THE SOUTH - FREEDOM VIETNAM - DEMOCRACY FOR VIETNAM - SAT CONG
pedrolegion 1 year ago
Some great footage here! Nice!!!
jethro19561 2 years ago
Peterm....one of our hooch maids at Vinh Long in 68 would tell us guys to "kill cong". I asked her why she said that and she said her husband was a village chief and the vc wanted him to help them...he refused; so they killed him in front of the whole village. That's why we were there, to stop the fucking commie murderers!
dvdcnl 2 years ago 2
The Vietnam War, it was a special time back in 68-75 i remember i saw nearly the whole war on TV. When im thinking back on that time its like it has a kind of weird touch, how? because i remember clearly some stuff i did while it was there. When i saw the news about how the war was about to accelrate or slow down(Kissinger said America were about to win the war) every day its like it was a part of me. The whole war was like a play for those of us who could watch it on TV.
globe255 2 years ago
Had the US not intervened in Vietnam in 50s communists would have gone further to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore. SVN & US stopped communists at 17th parallel for 20 years. During this time, the crack between Russia & China became wider. After 75, proxy war between Russia and China fought in Cambodia. The domino effect stopped because communists fought each other
lechinhluan 2 years ago
@lechinhluan Bravo, why is it that when someone speaks the inner truth of a complex issue to its rudimentery evolution, people react like a monkey in a tree fighting another for a banana? Just accept this fact and maybe you can see that the US did a great job stopping the communists at a time when the end could not be envisioned. At least not like what really happened, the fall of the Soviet Union.
zzzpqd 2 years ago
Ask anyone who was in the shit in Vietnam . They 'll tell you . It was insanity .
Pointless insanity . A war with no reason against an invisible enemy . much like the phantom terrorists who haunt the dreams of tv news reporters today .
peterm3964 2 years ago 3
Great footage !!
flickofdaswitch 3 years ago
Great VN shots of Hueys and Cobras!
robinson74 3 years ago