Wow. The more I see about VVAW, the more that I'm glad that I was too young to really know too much about what was going on (I was born in 1966).
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The memory of what Kerry and his real band of brothers (VVAW) did in 1971/72 is seared - seared in my memory. That is why I will do everything I can to make sure he is not elected president.
They supported the total disarmament of America. I distinctly remember a Reader's Digest article trying to explain to them why that was unwise. They said the war was racist genocide. We wanted to kill yellow people, and we were sending black people to die in the process. They were blind to the N Vietnamese aggression. Our S Vietnamese allies were called corrupt traitors to their own people.
Late in the war, the N Vietnamese launched a desperate all out tank attack. Their soldiers were found dead chained inside their tanks. The S Vietnamese were pretty much on their own at that point and they were cut off and surrounded at An Loc. They held out for many days and were victorious.
I will never forget the NYT writing that the battle of An Loc proved "even a rat will fight when cornered." Everything vile and illogical with the left today got it's impetus during Vietnam.
Oh, and how many realize that N Vietnam was defeated by Nixon's bombing and Vietnamization policy, and signed the Paris Peace Accords which ended the war. It wasn't until AFTER Nixon was removed by Watergate that the North violated the peace and launched a huge tank assault into the South. The democrats in Congress blocked President Ford from even sending our allies supplies. THAT is how Vietnam was lost.