Posted on 04/29/2025 8:50:59 PM PDT by Red Badger
It happens!
THIS VIETNAMESE PILOT STOLE A PLANE AND LANDED ON A US AIRCRAFT CARRIER WITH HIS FAMILY
In the three-part Apple series, Maj. Buang-Ly's son relates the story.
That’s a little effed up somehow.
Only 30 years between those two pictures...............
Only 80 years since WW2. NOT that long ago.
Only 66 thousand veterans of WWII are still with us. Most of those will pass before the next decade........................
This group of men deserve to have their comfort zones enhanced and defended.
The GIs of Vietnam were great, but the military leadership and government/political leaders were from WWII.
The old saying “We’re always ready to fight the previous war.”. comes to mind.............
Interesting and truthful comment. These same leaders led us through the disastrous cultural war of the 60’s and 70’s that put that era’s America haters and hippies in charge today.
That Greatest Generation won it all and lost it all.
After flying many air assault missions aboard a Huey, I remember seeing that photo and thinking “How truly embarrassing for America. We’ve really lost the war.”
They weren’t the greatest generation, they were just a generation.
All one has to do to understand that is forget about our own lifetimes and the last 90 years or so and try and rate generations of Americans from 1770 through say 1910, there were some truly epic generations of Americans during those periods.
I agree with you.
But us living folks tend to see history as viewed from their own experiences since birth. For all of my life I have been told the bunch that survived the Great Depression and won WWII is the greatest generation.
The remark I made regarding they let the country just slip away to the hippies and communists counters that belief.
Reference the two pictures of this thread, the flag planting and the UH-1 pushed off a carrier. If the folks that planted the flag had their shit together that helicopter never would have been pushed off the ship. Millions would not have died in China or Cambodia.
The comparison is irrelevant, nonsensical.
The flag raising on Iwo was a staged event to satisfy those who wanted a larger flag.
The helicopter event is a practical necessity to rid needed space of damaged goods.
I got your point but “greatest generation” isn’t even a generation, it is a term created by the liberal Tom Brokaw to title his book, it is really about an era, it is made up of multiple generations.
The great depression and WWII isn’t really a “generation” just as the 60s wasn’t.
it is really about an era, it is made up of multiple generations.
And our era is made of multiple generations. MAGA
“The flag raising on Iwo was a staged event ......”
Yes, we know that now, but it wasn’t widely known at the time, and it became an iconic symbol for the Marine Corps and a huge memorial statute in DC.
To people who don’t know its origin, it’s still a symbol of a hard fought victory which it rightfully is.
The photograph of the chopper being pushed off the aircraft carrier deck has become an iconic symbol of defeat and national shame...............
That staged WWII picture is of a battlefield victory during the war, we were more battlefield dominant during the Vietnam war and could have show many victorious photos but instead a photo is used showing an event that happened years after we had left the Vietnam War, a photo of us evacuating foreigners from the freshly invaded and overrun South Vietnam.
Had it not been for the likes of John Kerry and his ilk we would have won that war. The NVA Commanding General said so after the war, they were ready to lay down their arms when Kerry’s testimony on Capitol Hill where he lied his ass off before Congress changed their minds and gave them new hope for victory.
Kerry used exact scenarios out of a paperback novel of the time that was circulating in military units, “Sand in the Wind”, to disparage and insult our troops in the field.............
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