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Two Americans killed while fighting in Ukraine, State Department confirms
Yahoo News ^ | 4/12/23 | Gustaf Kilander

Posted on 04/12/2023 3:57:04 PM PDT by JonPreston

Two Americans have been killed while fighting in Ukraine, the US State Department has confirmed.

The department didn’t reveal the identities of the US citizens fighting Russian forces but told The Daily Beast that they are in contact with their families.

No additional details on the deceased Americans were available as of Wednesday afternoon.

Military bloggers supporting Russia claimed on Wednesday in mocking tones that a US “mercenary” had recently been killed in the battle for the city of Bakhmut.

“We can confirm the death of a US citizen in Ukraine. We are in touch with the family and providing all possible consular assistance,” a spokesperson for the State Department told The Daily Beast when asked about the individual mentioned by the bloggers.

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To: frank ballenger; Mark

The incident and surrounding actions by the Vietminh in the general southern territory of Vietnam, were a consequence of the British re-arming some French troops - that went strongly against the grain of Ho Chi Minh who sought control over Vietnam upon the Japanese surrender.

The French (whom the militant Annamese [Vietminh] disliked) had expected to recover control, but the power was assigned to the British.

When the Brits re-armed the French, the spark was ignited: Vietminh vs. French.


61 posted on 04/12/2023 8:48:20 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

May all such men rest in peace and we remember their sacrifice.

Thank you for supplying that memory of a 1945 loss in “French Indo China.”


62 posted on 04/12/2023 8:50:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: linMcHlp

Thank you. Good someone has far more knowledge of the history than I.

I remember the long cheers at the Dem. Nat. Convention which I followed on TV, when a senator said “And in the Gulf of Tonkin...” to extoll the heroic leadership of LBJ and the cheering went on for a long time.

Just as the tears did later when LBJ chose not to run again due to his and his aides miscalculations and the loss of lives of American men.

According to the National Archives—
The Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files contains records of 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War.


63 posted on 04/12/2023 9:04:24 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

Thank you.


64 posted on 04/12/2023 9:50:32 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: redfreedom
OMG! I’ve read several of the posts on this thread, and people cheering an American death and wanting US cities nuked.

I don't see these kinds of posts from those on the anti-Ukrainian war posters. When a man chooses to fight in a foreign war for pay, his nationality to many ceases to be a shield when he dies.

65 posted on 04/13/2023 5:14:02 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: 13foxtrot

“I think there are outside forces doing their best efforts to divide and disrupt the FR community.”

That’s my opinion too. Paid trolls, AI bots or whatever are seemingly at work here. The Ukrainian people post gobs of garbage in just one thread, posting to themselves. A dead give away on one of the postings was that the post was identical to Soviet era propaganda. The Uke’s are prior Soviet and likely learned this stuff first hand.

FR cannot be the only website bothering the Deep State. However I do see their concern, as both Covid and Ukraine can come an bite them in the next election.


66 posted on 04/13/2023 8:22:21 AM PDT by redfreedom (You can vote your way into socialism, but you may have to shoot your way out.)
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To: dragnet2

True...

I can’t say I’m “sorry” because their cause was horrible.
Just a sad situation all over.


67 posted on 04/13/2023 1:15:00 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: ETCM

Yes, that is true - another sad reality.


68 posted on 04/13/2023 1:18:41 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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