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To: Nitro
"The real reason for Viet-Nam was to prove to the Soviets we had the will to fight and bury our boys and keep on fighting."

From a Must Visit Site
Vipers Vietnam Veterans Page, A Vietnam Veteran & Proud Web Site
About Vietnam

The Vietnam war was the longest in our nation's history. Two American advisors were killed on July 8, 1959, and the last casualties in connection with the war occurred on May 15, 1975, during the Mayaquez incident. Approximately 2.7 million Americans served in the war zone; 300,000 were wounded and approximately 75,000 permanently disabled. Officially there are still 1,991 Americans unaccounted for from SE Asia.

Vietnam was a savage, in your face war where death could and did strike from anywhere with absolutely no warning. The brave young men and women who fought that war paid an awful price of blood, pain and suffering. As it is said: "ALL GAVE SOME ... SOME GAVE ALL"
The Vietnam war was not lost on the battlefield. No American force in ANY other conflict fought with more determination or sheer courage than the Vietnam Veteran.  For the first time in our history America sent it's young men and women into a war run by inept politicians who had no grasp of military strategies and no moral will to win. They were led by "top brass" who were concerned mainly with furthering their own careers, most neither understood the nature of the war nor had a clue about the impossible mission with which they'd tasked their soldiers.  And the war was reported by a self serving Media who penned stories filled with inaccuracies, deliberate omissions, biased presentations and blatant distorted interpretations because they were more interested in a story than the truth! It can be debated that we should never have fought that war. It can also be argued that the young Americans who fought so courageously, never losing a single major battle, helped in a huge way to WIN THE COLD WAR.

16 posted on 08/24/2003 5:17:41 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Never Forget Those Who Are Not Accounted For)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Great website. Here's another good quote from the site:

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions, blood and lives of better men than himself. "

19 posted on 08/24/2003 5:51:13 AM PDT by FReepaholic (My other tag line is hilarious.)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
AMEN
20 posted on 08/24/2003 5:55:34 AM PDT by Gone_Postal
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
For the first time in our history America sent it's young men and women into a war run by inept politicians who had no grasp of military strategies and no moral will to win. They were led by "top brass" who were concerned mainly with furthering their own careers, most neither understood the nature of the war nor had a clue about the impossible mission with which they'd tasked their soldiers. And the war was reported by a self serving Media who penned stories filled with inaccuracies, deliberate omissions, biased presentations and blatant distorted interpretations because they were more interested in a story than the truth! It can be debated that we should never have fought that war. It can also be argued that the young Americans who fought so courageously, never losing a single major battle, helped in a huge way to WIN THE COLD WAR.

Ditto to all of that my friend. Never forget where and how that "war was lost". In New York and Washington, in TV studios and oak-paneled conference rooms -- not in Vietnam.

21 posted on 08/24/2003 5:58:18 AM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Had a few...

gotta bump for reading tomorrow.

This was not an original idea, I heard or read it somewhere and it resonated!

I thought about it and I agreed, so Viet-Nam dead didn't die for nothing, they died to defeat the USSR!

23 posted on 08/24/2003 6:05:01 AM PDT by Nitro
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