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Today...I was talking to a Vietnamese Refugee...one of the 'Boat People' who came to Utah.

We talked for hours about the times in Vietnam...the fighting...the death and destruction.

Of how his people had such hopes for the future. Of how his people believed in what we told them about how Nations SHOULD be run. Freedom...Rights....Responsiblility.

We talked about his parents who couldn't get out of Vietnam...and we're sent to some 'Labour Camp'...never to be heard from again.(even all these years later you could hear the pain when he talked about it.)

We can always dance around the truth (after all...it's a very human trait)....but the last thing he said to me will stick with me for a long time.

"America gave up on us too soon. With a little more help...we would have made it. All the dead....for nothing."

redrock

p.s. Tonk...he did tell me to pass on to every Vietnam Vet I know the following words....."Thank You."

heartbreaking account - and motivation enough to stand against the left to my great gettin'-up day when the Good Lord issues me my final PCS orders.

And yet another reason to give thanks for the SWVTT - our heroes who may have shed the uniform they wore so proudly thirty years ago, but who never forgot their eternal oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic (got that, ketchup boy?).

Ageed, it was a sad day as America quit too soon in helping the South Vietnamese. There may have been a few Reublicans who cut and ran but it was the majority of the Democrat party that failed to support the South from holding on. The left continues today as well, with their anti-war stance on Iraq, all the while claiming they support the troops. They don't and never have.

IF the US leaves Iraq too soon, the Democrats will brag over their defeat of Republicans and it would mean another fifty years of disinformation on Iraq, and failure in US foreign policy.