[Chainmail]

I'm fairly sure that Ken Burns' latest opus will be another Leftist propaganda piece, so my hopes aren't particularly high that we will see a lot of truth about our war.

The truth is, that we were good young men and we had good people to protect and a vicious enemy to fight.

The truth is, we were good an effective combatants and we did not commit atrocities but often gave our lives to protect the villagers.

The truth is, that the Communist North Vietnamese, fully supported by the Soviets and the Chinese sponsored the terrorist Vietcong and sent regular units of the North Vietnamese Army into South Vietnam to overwhelm its pro-west government that was an American ally and a member of the SEATO. That fact that Vietnam sits astride the Straits of Malacca which control the sea lanes supplying our other allies in the area was also a contributing factor.

The truth is that it was a difficult war to prosecute: it was 10,000 air miles away at a time when most transportation was ships and piston-engine aircraft. No one has ever fought a war with such lengthy interior lines of communication.

The truth is that the war had to be fought carefully and over the long. bloody haul because our mission was to preserve and protect the South Vietnamese. A war of annihilation similar to the war we conducted WW II wasn't appropriate.

The truth is, that the "antiwar" movement was really a pro-enemy movement sponsored and controlled and manipulated by the Left at home and overseas.

The truth is, that those young men who fought in Vietnam are some of the finest people our country has ever produced yet we were treated as garbage when we got home and many or most of us are still suffering from the ugly chemistry that were exposed to over there (all of us who were in my company, without exception, who survived combat in Vietnam have aggressive prostate cancer).

I'm proud of us and our war.

[mad_as_he$$]

“I’m proud of us and our war. “

We are also.

[pabianice]

The truth is that the “anti-war movement” disappeared as soon as the draft ended. It was never anti-war, it was “I refuse to serve.”

[Terry Mross]

Great post. Your prostate problems are more than likely the results of exposure to agent orange.

The Vietnam vet was sent home poisoned. Had a friend who fought the VA for years. He was finally awarded disability and died two weeks later.

[Big Red Badger]

I work with A lot of Vietnamese,
Older men trained and fought with
The U.S.
They tell me story’s of the camps
They were sent to after we left.
Horrible!
Others act as if They are VC.
What a mess.