45 years! Wow,it seems just like yesterday when I watched the mobs try to push their way into the American embassy in Saigon, the brave Marines who maintained order, the chaos on the roof of the embassy, and the Navy pushing the helicopters off of ship decks to make room for more people.
And the litter of rifles along Highway 1 as the South Vietnam discarded the weapons we Americans paid for.
And now, we’re in Afganstain. Corrupt leaders, populace unwilling to fight for their own freedom, inability to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
I don’t want to waste anymore American blood to fight for freedom for those who refuse to fight for their own freedom.
Our military is the best in the world. God Bless each and everyone of them.
Litter of rifles for which there was no ammunition or vehicles for which there were no spare parts because the Democrat controlled congress terminated the sending of supplies of ammunition and replacement parts to the South Vietnamese government and military as President Nixon had promised would continue. Thus the formal full-scale invasion of the south by the North Vietnamese Regular Army was able to overrun the ARVN as it ran out of the means to fight.
CAM RANH VIETNAM
In Commemoration of the visit of the President
Of the United States on December 23. 1967
“I can bring you the assurance of what you have fought to achieve:
The enemy cannot win, now, in Vietnam…. Because oh what you men are
Doing here today, you may very well prevent a wider war, a greater war – a
World War III… I pray that you will be strengthened , this Christmas day
In wartime, by the love of your loved ones and your people, by the great
Confidence that you are inspiring in other people, and by your own great
Steadfast courage… May God bless you and may God keep each of you.”
Seal of the President of the United States