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Do you think our wounded would get the same care and protection as that shown here? I doubt it.

Seems like this guy be VC.

Were the American New Left Anti-war or really pro war, that is pro communist revolutionary war in both Vietnam and even in America? Le Duc Tho used to torture Kissinger during the "Peace" talks in Paris, saying we know what's going on at your campuses, we know about the "peace" movement, the so ...

The dilectic (as the New Left term it) of the Cold War was profoundly difficult for Americans to deal with. Korea started off with strong support. By the end, there were calls for Truman's impeachment, no one cared about the Pusan Perimeter, the GI's came home on ships to no fanfare, and thousa...

The Lon Son Laotian operation was a catastrophic failure. The ARVN troops were decimated and had not USA airpower not been used en masse, they would have been wiped out almost completely. All discipline had broken down. They were running for the incoming helos, overcrowding them and hanging fr...

Hmm, what's missing? Oh yes, mention of the 140,000 NVA troops allowed to remain in place in the south, armed and supplied. And waiting for the running dog imperialists to leave, knowing that they had their fill of jungle guerilla warfare and would not be returning. He knew full well South Vie...

Nice, but to say the hippies were right all along is debatable at best, naiive at worst. The North Vietnamese/Viet Cong never were serious at Paris. They knew US internal domestic strife was escalating, as was the economic and social decay of US power. They knew they had us boxed in and despar...

From the looks of the films he was pretty close to becoming incontinent, infertile and sexually impotent. Once you lose these functions you think twice about returning to "weekend warrior" status.

A true believer in socialism and the cult of personality. Was Nazi socialism that much different from Soviet socialism? IMO, not that much. Different heads of the same coin. National socialism vs. international socialism. Corporate/state economic collusion (Nazi) vs. total state economic con...

Been there, done that, same route in 1980 following my first year of college. However, I wonder how this guy got back down to where his gear is. The fixed rappel station is right below the summit and if you take your gear to the top you don't need to third class halfway back down since that's whe...

I was a student at Oneonta from '79-'83 and we used to cross country ski there. What an unknown gem and credit to the CCC.

looks like an accident waiting to happen. several of these people were moving on bad placements and poor footing, not to mention simultaneously and close together.

If the Palestinians are in favor of a 2 state solution why was there a rejection of the '48 UN partition plan when they would have had more land than they have today? Or, if opposed to occupation and want independence, why was there no intifada against the Jordanians the between '48 and '67 when ...

This is a good speech but one which his detractors vehemently disagreed with. They would say we are the ones waging a war of aggressive expansionism, not the North Vietnamese; that we say we are for self-determination, yet we support colonial powers, such as France and Britain; that this is a glo...

been there in 1979, now confined to a wheelchair, good memories, nice hike