Posted on 05/28/2021 7:56:14 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
Hopeful and uplifting. Sad and horrifying. All rolled into one.
Old enemies can meet as friends.
My brother served in Vietnam. Six years ago he was living in Thailand, and took a trip to Cam Rahn Bay, where he spent the majority of his time in country. He went with a Thai man who was also a veteran. They met with a few former Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers.
He says that all agreed that the war was long over, and nobody really won, that the North simply outlasted USA. There was no longer any need to be enemies, few in Vietnam are angry or bitter any longer.
Thank you, it ain’t barbecues and party, it time to remember the fallen.
Very touching.
That was truly fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
“The past is never dead, it’s not even past”. How many times have you heard, “back then you would be considered old if you made it to 40”. Seem to be a lot of folks older than 40 present.
My great grandfather served in the NY cavalry saw action under Sheridan. Winchester and Wilderness and in between. Mustered out at the end of the war. He went to the 1913 event. I had fortunately a great uncle which wrote down all his adventures, put it in a book. Great stories there. He used to go down to Philly when he was much older and tell his stories to the street kids.
His rifle portrait and the key to libby prison hangs over my fireplace.
Could be one or two Civil War brides left.
No, I was there both as a soldier and a civilian contractor training the S. Vietnamese.
The democrat led Congress at the time voted to defund the Vietnamization program started by Nixon.
Democrats abandoned S. Vietnam and the brave Americans who fought and died there.
America was not allowed to win./rant off
Thirteen bravo '68, A/1/92FA.
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Helen Viola Jackson (August 3, 1919 – December 16, 2020) was the last surviving widow of a Union soldier and the last surviving widow of a Civil War veteran overall; she died on December 16, 2020, at the age of 101.
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Helen Viola Jackson (1919–2020)
Last American Revolution widow died in the 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Sumner_Damon
Touching remembrance on Memorial Day. I always enjoyed watching Ken Burns documentary on the Civil War. Those death totals are staggering.
You know the nation is lost, lost I say, because some fraction of our society believe these Americans are not worthy to be honored based on the color of their uniform.
The most profound comment regarding the Civil War was Shelby Floyd’s the Civil War made the United States an “is” rather than an “are”.
Yes I imagine it was. I am lucky to have the stories. It all will be passed down to my son.
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