I really enjoyed your explanation of President Nixon and South Vietnam. We have a number of friends who were refugees from South Vietnam. If one believed the John Kerry and Hollywood version of our involvement in South Vietnam you would think that they would hate American service men and service women, and have some serious reservations about America. Quite the contrary... they are some of the most patriotic Americans that we know, and they are very respectful to our veterans and especially Vietnam veterans. Many have told us of how they were helped and even saved by our service men and service women.
I say this because my wife has the largest collection of women’s service uniforms that I am aware of on the West Coast. She sets up displays at schools, museums, special events and fund raisers. She maintains the collection with the help of some of her Vietnamese friends. She has spent so much time with them in the last few years that she has become pretty good at understanding the Vietnames language. We have heard the same version of events from people who lived through it. Saddly this is not what our children are taught in school. We fear that soon the version told by Hollywood and the Left will be all that is remembered by our society. So please keep repeating the truth to whoever will listen.
Thanks. It’s more of a rant than an explanation but it’s the straight up truth.
John Kerry testified to Congress that there would be no bloodbath if the US withdrew. The New York Times said Indochina would be better off if the Americans left.
After the communists took over in Vietnam and Cambodia and millions were killed or put in re-education camps or drowned in the South China Sea trying to escape there was no apology from the liberals. They never said “oops, our bad.”
In fact, they doubled down on the propaganda. For example, millions of Americans today believe that JFK wanted to pull out of Vietnam and was killed in a conspiracy by LBJ in order to stay in Vietnam. It’s a ridiculous lie, but they’ve seen it with their own eyes in the Hollywood movie “JFK.” Of course there are lots of other examples.