Our computer opens on a Microsoft page with all sorts of clickbait articles on it. Lately, they’ve had several pages “devoted” to the Vietnam War - all of which, coincidentally include antiwar demonstrations and pictures of Ho Chi Minh.
The Left is still trying to sell the fiction that the enemy - the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army - were wonderful people and the young American men were a combination of inept and war criminals.
We were good, solid, and competent, the Vietnamese were good people and needed our help and enemy was scum. I am and always be proud of us - and still hate the Left for their treason.
The VC lost the war in the Tet Offensive. The ARVN did not fold but slaughtered the VC. The number killed is not that important compared to the loss of face. I have never seen anywhere a realization of that principle; a principle vitally important in Asia.
I have chosen to remember that Ronald Reagan said, “ours (mine) was a noble cause. A small country (including ethnic Chinese, Catholic Vietnamese, and others fleeing Communism) newly free from colonial rule sought our help in establishing self-rule and the means of self-defense against a totalitarian neighbor (Tonkinese) bent on conquest”. He said that to consider it otherwise dishonored the memory of over 58,000 who died in the cause.