A sweet landing

The American Thinker ^ | Dec. 14, 2004 | A.M. Mora y Leon

[Kitten Festival]

As hard as it may be for many Americans and Vietnamese Americans who have felt the battering hand of the Vietnam War for so many years, consider for a moment the small incandescence of last week’s United Airlines Flight 869 from San Francisco to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), the first American commercial airliner to arrive at Tan Son Nhat airport since 1975. The last American jet that felt land in Vietnam was the final Pan Am jet as it departed during the fall of Saigon.

I know it's asking a lot.

Communists "won" that terrible war while American troops were reviled by some at home, abused abroad and left in the killing fields of war's hell. Their missing were abandoned, and they watched as other countries around the world were sucked into the Soviet orbit. Amid liberal political mismanagement of the war, all of their sacrifices seemed to be for nothing.

But years pass and green shoots of life appear with little regard for the conditions they grow in. So it seems with this resumption, after 29 long years, of commercial airline flights between America and Vietnam.

[Kitten Festival]

Item on the significance of that flight from san francisco to saigon late last week.

[sandviper]

Once a traitor always a traitor!!!!!!