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Sunday marks 50 years since U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam
ABC7 Chicago ^
| 03/08/2015
Posted on 03/08/2015 7:06:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
DA NANG, Vietnam (WLS) -- Sunday marks 50 years since United States combat troops arrived in Vietnam when two battalions made up of hundreds of Marines landed in Da Nang on March 8, 1965.
They originally went to help the South Vietnam government defeat communist forces.
The U.S. sent in more troops over the next few years, peaking at 543,000 in April, 1969.
More than 58,000 U.S. troops lost their lives in the war. The last U.S. troops left the country in March 1973.
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Thank you, Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara.
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:13:54 PM PDT
by
laconic
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Not me! I successfully dodged the draft.
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:14:38 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(We weren't here, We were never there, We don't exist. ASA)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; ConorMacNessa
Wow, 50 years.
I honor my brothers-in-arms who didn't make it back home.
Welcome Home to those who did.
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:14:46 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Always Give 100% --- Unless you're donating blood.)
To: PROCON
The war had been won.
Then the Democrats walked away.
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:16:14 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
To: ASA Vet
I successfully dodged the draft.And you're proud of that?
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:16:31 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Always Give 100% --- Unless you're donating blood.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
A significant event, but of course, U.S. troops had already been in Vietnam for years, as Advisors, helicopter crews, signal, engineer and MP units and many other functions. The marine battalions marked the introduction of the first infantry formations, followed shortly thereafter by the arrival of the 173d Airborne Brigade and the 1st Air Cavalry Division.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
My father (USMC) was there in late 63 & early 64 as an “adviser”. Damn near got killed.
Came home in 64 and said we were going to get into it *full scale* and throw a lot of lives away for *nothing*. And he predicted it would all be on the heads of politicians (specifically LBJ at the time).
But as we all know, politicians don’t listen to experienced combat officers. They know everything, why should they?
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:17:25 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
The war had been won. Then the Democrats walked away.
Don't get me started :-)
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:17:33 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Always Give 100% --- Unless you're donating blood.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Nixon was a Democrat? Who knew?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
What a waste of resources that was.
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:20:54 PM PDT
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: PROCON
And you’re proud of that?
= = = = = = = = = = = = = =
I have a feeling the person who wrote he ‘successfully etc’ did it the same way I did.
I enlisted at 17, so in effect, I dodged the draft.
Clinton had referred to us that VOLUNTARILY ENLISTED as ‘draft dodgers’ ...
Depends on what is is.
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:22:34 PM PDT
by
xrmusn
((6/98)A pessimist damns the wind, an optimist thinks it will change and a realist adjusts the sails.)
To: xrmusn
I enlisted at 17, so in effect, I dodged the draft.Well, I did too, but I never thought of it that way, LOL, but I guess it's true!
I was a draft dodger!
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:26:30 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Always Give 100% --- Unless you're donating blood.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Went over in May of 66, stayed till May of 68.
Kind of glad I was there early, it was a different
war then.
Tet68 USMC VMA-223 MAG 12 Chu Lai RVN.
Ooooorah!
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:27:06 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: PROCON
I successfully dodged that draft for my entire 28 years.
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:28:46 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(We weren't here, We were never there, We don't exist. ASA)
To: centurion316
The Democrats in Congress walked away.
To: ASA Vet
I confessed to being a draft dodger too in post #13 :-)
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:32:15 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Always Give 100% --- Unless you're donating blood.)
To: centurion316
No - after Nixon, and after the Paris Peace treaty. Once Nixon was out the North tested the waters - with no aid (as promised) coming from Democratic Congress to help out the south. And like a two-year old seeing that mom isn't going to stop him from stealing a cookie, he swipes the whole jar.
Numerous parallels can be be made today.
Was just helping my daughter with her history (Revisionist crap). One of the essay questions was compare and contrast the Vietcong victory in Vietnam with the Iraq war?
I had to explain to her that after Tet, the VC weren't really a factor. And after the NVA took over the south, the VC was dissolved (most of them were northernors by this time anyway), and southern communists were taken out of power on the chance that they had been tainted by living in the south for so long.
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:34:22 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
To: tet68
Thank you for your service!
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:35:34 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
To: PROCON
And Welcome Home to you, too.
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posted on
03/08/2015 7:44:03 PM PDT
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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