I was in this place in rural Thailand once , years ago . In my hat I wore a U.S. flag pin . A Thai saw it and came up to me asking , in Thai , “are you American ?” Of course I replied that I was , and I was thinking ‘ uh oh ‘ way out in the boonies , could be a rural Thai commie . He then went on to tell me “ Thank you ! Thank you America ! I love America ! When you fought in Laos and Vietnam you bought my country time , with your own blood . If America had not fought hard against the communists there , the communists would have taken my country too . They would have killed my King and killed my Queen and taken away our religion . Thank you “
I have never forgotten this conversation . And so when I write some of the thing that I do it is from direct experience , not some concocted right wing ideology . People that ‘know’ respect our sacrifices . Vietnam was a just and a righteous war . It’s just too bad that the American people were also too weak to stave off communism and the Leftistism of the ‘students’ on the home front . Will we ever learn ? Anyway , some Thais get it , they get it real well .
LeoWindhorse wrote:
“(snip) ... I was in this place in rural Thailand once , years ago ...”
I was in Thailand, not wearing a U.S. Flag pin, but the uniform of the U. S. Air Force, from 1971 to 1974, stationed and operating from Royal Thai Naval Air Field U-Tapao, 90 miles south of Bangkok. I am aware of the Thai Communists that were waging war in Northern Thailand, and the Thai Mohammedans, waging war in the Southern Peninsula, and in the bordering nation of Malaysia. I’ve met many Cambodian, Laotian, Malay, and Thais that had stories of this nature.
Now, in this time, to see that crap growing and spreading in my own land, puts one’s self-disicpline to the test.