Posted on 12/31/2019 12:28:21 PM PST by artichokegrower
Wake Island has a singular distinction.
It is the only time is modern history that an amphibious assault was repelled by the defenders.
Perhaps a better question would be:
Name one place where America has had a clear cut military victory since the UN was formed in 1945?
Go ahead, take your best shot.
My step grandpa was an Indian... he said they were white soldiers and we put them in the wheel narrow and dumped for the dogs. Dad beat my ass when got back. I was 6 or 7 at that time. We had 12 brass flag points. Hundreds of arrows and other stuff.
So eff em.
Vietnam was not a military loss, it was a military victory that led to the Paris Peace Accords peace agreement which led to the military withdrawal.
After the US military pull out the dems, after successfully getting Nixon out of office, defunded the South Vietnamese. Without much needed military supplies they were over run by the North.
Some of the last South Vietnamese tanks defending Saigon literally ran out of fuel.
I think you’ve been listening to the libtards, the one parroting Vietnam as a military loss.
It goes all the way back to Wilson and the League of Nations.
That’s approximately when the traitorous State Department started taking control of American Foreign Policy.
The ONE WORLDERS are still pissed about the League of Nations failure, now their trying it with the DEMOCRATS and the UN.
Where can I find out more about that?
Nam was a total loss. There was no victory. We tucked our tail and fled.
Pardon me but we Southerners consider both Drewry’s Bluff & Ball’s Bluff to be VICTORIES, though not as humiliating for our invading enemy as MARYE’S HEIGHTS & FORT WAGNER were.
That said, we Southerners consider the assault of the 54th Mass at Ft Wagner to be GLORIOUS even in their utter defeat & martyrdom, just as we honor the valor of COL Chamberlain & his 20th Maine.
Yours, TMN78247
It's an interesting show to watch but Detroit has work to do on reputation. Espeshilaly when we're lion's fans.
Beat your ass for what?
Dumping their bones at the end of the driveway on the farm.
If you go to Quebec City and see how high it is up the bluff over the river, you might wonder WTH were we thinking. I think we tried to take Quebec twice IIRC
This son of the south first thought Gettysburg
the list is forgotten battles, most remember Pearl
Bullshit
I knew someone who was an American soldier in the Philippines in December 1941. He survived the Bataan Death March and more than 3 years as a prisoner of war. He died a few years ago in his 90s. He did not have a good opinion of General MacArthur.
I have been there. It is quite a formidable cliff. They attacked on December 31 because some of the enlistments ended at the end of the year. There is also a marker in the old city marking the house where Richard Montgomery’s body was kept before the funeral. The current building on the site is later. His remains were later removed to the United States. Most of the Montgomery Counties in the US are named for him.
thanx. My lady friend only wanted too shop.
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