Semper Fi ...
Posted on 04/28/2021 5:31:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Guest post below and the note I received from the author, a regular here at CFP Nation.
Dear Kane
Today April 28 marks the 46th anniversary of the three day period of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. The evacuation commenced on the 28th with the phrase, “The temperature in Saigon is 105 degrees and rising,” followed by Armed Forces Radio broadcasting Bing Crosby’s singing of “White Christmas” as the signal to begin.
The media barely covers the anniversaries of Pearl Harbor, D-Day and the like anymore. I faithfully scan the sites for any acknowledgement of the events and find nothing. With very little of our WWII and Korean War veterans remaining and CFP populated by Vietnam/Vietnam Era veterans (Dan066, Cat, D-NoMoray, Vietnam Veteran, Corpsman, myself, and others) I offer this as a suggestion.
That event brought on by the democrats of the day defunding the war and abandoning those left to die and succumb to communist rule changed many people to become conservatives. Like myself.
I admire what you did for DanO. It brought me to tears. Thanks.
Sgt Tyree
Vietnam war.....fighting a guerilla war with 8000 mile long supply lines, with no bombing allowed of North Vietnam, and not even oil fields present, what could go wrong?
Commercial Flight from NY city to Ho Chi Minh city is 17 hours!
The real tragedy was about to happen next door in Cambodia, ironically it was the NVA that put a stop to it.
Probably within a year history will repeat itself with the fall of Kabul.
I remember......................
I expect you are right. Maybe even less than a year.................
Vietnam was salvageable, I don’t think anything can help Afghanistan.
Around the mid-80s, Vietnam pretty much figured out that Communism was for the birds and adapted a more market-based economy, you’d never know it was Communist today, although it is still very authoritarian.
I visited Vietnam in 2016. Nice country, nice people.
My understanding is there’s very little resentment towards Americans, and they are treated well there.
Semper Fi, Marine!.......................
And Kerry advising the enemy!
Courtesy of the Democrat Party...
I hear that they cheered as the NVA entered the City.....................
Absolutely, I enjoyed my visits to port cities in Vietnam during a cruise from Hong Kong to Singapore.
Well, we didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings..
In the end, it was the cutting of aid that doomed South Vietnam. IF they had sufficient popular support amongst their own population, they still required arms, and Dems in Congress stopped the aid. President Ford was livid, knowing we were abandoning them, but there was nothing he could do.
I watched an interview with a disillusioned veteran who described friends saying it was great the war was over; because he knew what the communists were, he replied that while he opposed the war he didn’t see that outcome as a positive thing at all.
The implementation was problematic; the cause itself was just.
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