Enemies Become Best Of Friends

Meet two men who are the best of friends now, but when they first met in the military their jobs put a strain on their relationship. They were trying to kill each other. Steve Hartman reports.

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[dethica]

this clip got me very emotional. thank you for uploading

[galloway6204]

Hi there sorry i shot you down in vietnam! :3

[spinfox2000]

Wow!!!!. a F4 Phantom II in your backyard???

[oweng1980]

great story, it seems when people really grow old, we came to realize the value of life, like these guys, they were young then, only fulfilling they're duties for their countries, and at the end they become friends. I remember in the dogfights, dan cherry and his wingman fired a number of missiles before dan actually hit the vietnamese pilot, good pilot indeed=).

[DantehMan]

@meronmotors Tell you what man, I'm going to reply to this in a PM so we can afford each other more space for the discussion.

[meronmotors]

@DantehMan what state do you live in ? whats your background if you dont mind me asking

[meronmotors]

@DantehMan I think it would be worth it if it if wedidnt walk away.First and foremost vietnam was a british colony. They couldnt deal with it they had bigger problems so we said we would handle it. Landgrab for who? We won in korea do we own Korea?Its a business partner. I would like to point out that EVERY comunist country that Iam aware of has killed many many of its own whether it be stalin in the ussr. polpot cambodia, kim korea, zedong.When Vietnam leaves communism we will hear about theirs

[DantehMan]

@meronmotors I still don't think the ends justify the means when it comes to Vietnam. I can understand involvement in the Korean War, as the Koreans were our allies and they were invaded, but Vietnam was hardly a point of contention. Vietnam was a game of landgrab that cost 58,000 American lives and countless more Vietnamese lives, and for what? We lost. The communists won in Vietnam, and now look at the place. It's fine. We do business with it even. It wasn't worth it at all.

[meronmotors]

@DantehMan Of course the war industries start drooling when they see the tensions build but we could have had alot of better oppertunities for wars that produces revenue. Anyways we may not agree on the motives or the results but you and I should be happy that we can disagree. Swing over to north K and tell them americans kept them out of the south. That they are wrong. I dont think you would live long. I know my countries far from perfect but its much further from bad.

[meronmotors]

@DantehMan Latin america I cannot say much about... I have read enough books to know we didnt play nice. However I still disagree with you in asia. Imagine a communist asia. Japan the only country who is not who lives in fear. When we removed her horns and took its guns. Then we let it get swallowed by the communists. No body would trust us again. Second Asia would be lost. Europe was half lost. Africa was heading towards communism and so was latin america. This is why we did it.

[DantehMan]

@meronmotors You're so...wrong. While the Soviets weren't great, neither were we. How many people were murdered and oppressed in Latin America in the name of the American way? How many in Vietnam? Cambodia? Laos? Our intentions were as sick and perverted as the Soviets and their communism. The Vietnam War can never be justified. Additionally, atheism and theism has nothing to do with this. This is about political ideology.

[meronmotors]

@PlsB9s You need to turn off the news. The majority of our wars have been fought with good intentions. Our best intentions were of the veitnam war was stopping communism from taking asia.Imagine a world of Gulags, north koreas, and pol pots. Instead we have free countries. Freedom of speach. The right to any religion you choose (communist are usually athiest and dont allow the practice of religion) Weve had some bad leaders but as you can see here we have good people. God bless america