Posted on 07/18/2005 7:57:49 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
breaking, more to come
RIP, General Westmoreland. When you can rank perverted scum like the media among your enemies, you've done well.
16 posted on 07/18/2005 8:05:37 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC
AMEN and AMEN!
That was the sentence that stuck out to me.....we lost???!!!!!
Westmoreland was a man of courage and achievement, but SC Republicans in 1974 refused to nominate him for the governorship. Even in SC, Republicans were beginning to believe the lies that "Uncle Walter" told about Vietnam.
The long gray line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country.
This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished - tone and tints. They have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. I listen then, but with thirsty ear, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. But in the evening of my memory I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes: Duty, Honor, Country.
Today marks my final roll call with you. But I want you to know that when I cross the river, my last conscious thoughts will be of the Corps, and the Corps, and the Corps.
I bid you farewell
General Douglas MacArthur
May 12, 1962
RIP General
56,000 dead. For nothing.
Uh, I can think of a few million Vietnamese that just might disagree with you, as well as wonder where we went.
This aging Viet Nam Veteran salutes you, General. May you rest in peace, Sir.
My father met him in 1965 in Vietnam.
Thank you Vietnam fallen and those who fought.
Where do we get such men?
Thank you, General.
"That was the sentence that stuck out to me.....we lost???!!!!!"
In some ways it was a shame they came to the peace table after Nixon got pissed off and ordered total bombing of Hanoi, the harbor areas, other military and factory infrastructors, and of course the mining of Hapiang harbor (I misspelled it). They where defeated, we drove them back and broke their back on the ground and in the air. As many a book has indicated they where at their end and their only hope was for the American public and Congressional anti war fevor to turn the tide for them. Which of course we knew happened.
To say we lost the war is just absurd.
Did you notice this line in the AP story?
"His love of uniforms began early."
Think they meant anything by it?
RIP, general.
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After we were fooled into leaving the Free People of South Vietnam behind to their fate at the hands of heavily Soviet-backed invading Communist bullies from the North:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
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LOl! Teflon coating is more adhesive than super glue, compared to the lubricant of MSM spin.
We lost in Korea, big time (look where they are today), thanks to the pussy Truman, whose love for the U.N. was greater than his faith in our greatest General (MacArthur).
It actually took the NVA two more years to take over the South after we pulled out almost all of our people in 1973, mainly because the Dem controlled Congress cut off the funding to the South Vietnamese. The North broke the Paris peace accords.
1946 - 1948: Russian aggression in Europe - 100% appeasement
1950 - 1953: Korea - almost defeated, turned it around and nearly reached the Yalu. PRC upped the ante - we sued for peace.
1962 - USSR/Cuba place IRBMs in Cuba. We laid a blockade. But USSR refused to remove missiles unless we set aside the Monroe Doctrine by agreeing never to invade Cuba.
1964 - 1975: With insane rules of engagement, we tried to appear to stand up to Communist aggression in SE Asia but never really fought all out. We were afraid that the PRC and or the USSR would formally declare war on us and use nukes. Ended in shameful defeat.
1972: US falls for the China Card, leading to an increasing pattern of appeasement of Red China, still going on today.
1978: US sells Taiwan down the river and supports the end of formal diplomatic relations. "One China" policy of appeasement born.
1978: USSR invades Afghanistan. No response from US / NATO. Later, Reagan would fund only a covert response.
1979 - 1981: Iran Hostage crisis.
1985: Marines evacuate Beirut.
Etc, etc, etc. MAD is mad! Appeasement only builds up the pressure for great war!
RE: We should not have been there in the first place.
Are you a Communist? If not, do you believe in appeasing Communists and other anti Western fiends?
Who's Dan Rather?
Had that faggot Truman listened to MacArthur and bombed/nuked the Chinese on the Yalu, the Commie takeover of Vietnam would never have happened.
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LOVE is coming to Vietnam:
GARDEN GROVE snub irks HANOI
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1135666/posts
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