“I got a lot closer than Hawai’i. “
Did you get to the Mekong Delta? Haiphong Harbor?
I was asking about YOUR expertise because you asked how old my wife was when my previous posts had bracketed her age.
BTW, what IS your expertise? How old are you? When were you in Vietnam?
I’ll answer the irrelevant part of your question, but first -
You stated that the population of VietNam was 75% Buddhist.
I contradicted you, asserting no more than 15%.
My source is Pew Research and the CIA World Factbook.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vm.html
Your source is that your wife was scared by some Catholic thugs.
As for your irrelevant questions -
I am 69.
I was “in country” in 1970 & 71.
Yes, I was in the Mekong Delta.
And the Gulf of Thailand.
And Ben Hoa, Long Binh, Tan Son Nhut, Saigon and a number of other places in III Corps and IV Corps.
I was a member of a MACV Team and as a Liaison I lived detached from the US Army and billeted with ARVNs.
I lived with them day-to-day and got to know them quite well.
I also did a stint with a team at the Central POW Camp on Phu Quoc working with Chieu Hoi prisoners.
I met very few on either side who were Catholic or Buddhist.
Hence I tend to trust the stats I read from CIA.