Recently as I was perusing YouTube I stumbled across several pieces there that hit home with me. They are about the Viet Nam War and all struck a chord or 3 in my memory banks. Much of this is about our Australian brothers who served with us. My advisory team, B-20 MIKE Force, was 1/2 U.S. Army Special Forces & 1/2 Australian (SAS) Special Air Service troops. I ask only that you watch, listen and then ponder but DO NOT judge those of us who went, served, fought, bled, died or returned., rather judge the politicians on both sides of the aisle who allowed us to go and suffer...!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6vy4RmRhko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY
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Our brave young men, so many still innocent boys when they left, fought for a cause, for our country's call to help others. When we remember the horrors that were visited on the South Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon, we have to honor all the young men who fought, albeit vainly, to prevent. Their cause was every bit as humanitarian as the cause of our forebears in WWII to free the Jews, gypsies, other "ethnic undesirables" (according to the Nazis) and Christians who spoke up or acted to counter the Nazis in the camps or in hiding and stop the obscene horror and the ones who fought likewise against the lesser known Japanese atrocities in Manchuria and Korea. We remember how heroically our young men fought to protect innocent Kuwaitis from Iraq's atrocities, another humanitarian effort.
The horrors our young men in Vietnam faced were neither more or less appalling than those our forebears faced in the trenches of France, the thundering smoke of Gettysburg or the cold, deprivation and starvation of Valley Forge, just unique to their particular war. It's sad that we have honored the vets of all those wars--except those of Viet Nam. We have never accused people remembering the horrors of other wars of revisionism, only those of Viet Nam.
Consider this, liberals! Kennedy got us into Viet Nam. Johnson escalated the war and sneaked into Laos, then lied about it. Remember the "credibility gap"? It took Nixon to get us out, and then to open the first rapprochement with China!
It took Hanoi Jane Fonda, a curse be upon her, to vastly increase the torture sessions endured by our heroes locked in the Hanoi Hilton, and her evilly false propaganda to entice young people to spit upon returning war heroes rather than honor them as, thank God, we now do.
Paula, the darkness and sadness have nothing to do with the war itself; we do not call the eras of the World Wars, the Civil War, 1812, the Revolution "dark and very sad". We honor the heroes. The darkness and sadness must be laid at the feet of Hanoi Jane and others who refused to support our patriotic troops, whose patriotism they preferred to jettison in order to hate the soldiers.
Donald, I honor you for your patriotism that had you volunteer to enlist, and to re-up again and again until a Cong grenade destroyed your leg. I honor my late husband and his brother for volunteering for the Air Force during those years, and serving with faithfulness and patriotism. I honor all our heroes of Viet Nam. You are every bit as heroic as the heroes of D Day, of Flanders Fields, of Gettysburg, of Fort McHenry, of Valley Forge and that Christmas Eve crossing the Delaware while the Hessians drank and feasted.