[Dallas59]

Then 35 years of brutal communist rule, that made the War seem like a picnic.

[ALPAPilot]

The Vietnam War and America's involvement in it affected the lives of millions for well over a decade, exacting a massive human cost with millions of deaths and countless injuries - both physical and mental - that plague many of those involved to this day.

Brought to you exclusively by the Democrats.

[DJ Taylor]

Memories light the corners of my mind...

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/04/30/captured-a-look-back-at-the-vietnam-war-on-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-saigon-2/

[Jim W N]

The big picture is the Lefties of today who were the red-diaper-doper-baby Hippies then, decided in their intoxicated stupor that our trying to prevent a Communist invasion into South Vietnam was bad. Bad America for trying to save millions of lives that would come under the deadly Communist rule.

Well, America pulled out and of course the inevitable happened: the North Vietnam Communists invaded, took over, and over a million South Vietnamese were killed under its rule.

[sig226]

The stupid comments following those pictures on the source page are amazing. Boston is truly lost. They want communism. Perhaps we should let them have it.

[stylecouncilor]

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[WilliamofCarmichael]

"[T]he [American] media played a major role in the final downfall of South Vietnam. . . . North Vietnam [Communist] General Vo Nguyen Giap [stated] in a French TV broadcast that [the] 'most important guerrilla during the Vietnam War was the American press.'"

And what of today's American media?

I think that Michael Savage -- who's pretty good with such things -- has defined the media's support of the enemy this time.

"The media have become the minarets of terrorism."

The American media are the Islamists' most important muezzins.

[Yardstick]

The comments section is awful, owned by the lefties, though there are a few good comments in there. The best one is by a guy named Justin near the bottom. What impresses me about the pictures is that 35 years later they’re still trying to demoralize us and cast Vietnam as the Bad War. The psyche of the left requires that we be solemn and angry and ashamed when we think of Vietnam. But I think it was a good war, justified and winnable.

[CodeToad]

“Then 35 years of brutal communist rule, that made the War seem like a picnic.”

Yep. Our military could win that war if not for the polidiots in Washington. We won battle after battle but were never allowed to go in for the kill: Invade North Vietnam and halt all traffic and supplies coming in from China and Russia. We left before the fall of Saigon, several years before, and we left the South Vietnamese high and dry after promising we would supply them.

The killing from 1975 onward by the Communists from the north was horrific, yet, we didn’t lift a finger.

Let’s not forget, Vietnam was a war fought by a Democrat, LBJ. Even JFK had second thoughts about it before he was killed.