PBS- Vietnam by Ken Burns
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snakeyes
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Cornpatch MO
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Among those brave soldiers who did not survive, was my best high school friend ...my Son is named after him. He left behind, a very young wife and a baby daughter........................MO
Cornpatch MO
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What an absolute BABE !!! I bet she had a lot of guys in love with her, and was the object of many fantasy's. What a comparison to the scumbag Fonda.............................MOlChris Noel View attachment 516517View attachment 516518View attachment 516519View attachment 516520View attachment 516521View attachment 516522View attachment 516523View attachment 516525View attachment 516526View attachment 516527View attachment 516528View attachment 516529View attachment 516530View attachment 516531View attachment 516533View attachment 516534View attachment 516535View attachment 516536View attachment 516537View attachment 516538View attachment 516539View attachment 516540View attachment 516541
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Ranger16
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Thanks for the "Thank you", but a hero I am not. Never did anything heroic. Just did my job like many thousands of others and in the end, my luck ran out (like many thousands of others) when I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Bruzilla
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Tried to watch it last night, but I saw that play up of John McCain and had to shut it off. Tortured my ***.
BeeKool
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That's kinda what I was worried about.
John Kerry's tribute is next
Those two may as well have been carrying AKs wearing rice hats IMO
YY1
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c'mon, guys.
They showed the footage the NVA filmed, then had about 15 sec of commentary where they quoted him as saying he was beaten because he wasn't gracious enough to his captors/rescuers.
Hardly a glowing political endorsement.
What this is showing me is that the US thought that high tech could win a very low tech war and that the NV were one step ahead of us the entire time, especially with the big picture.
This should be a primer for the messes we've gotten into more recently since some of the same circumstances hold true, such as no clear objectives and hearts and minds of the people.
Sadly, it looks like at least some lessons remain unlearned.
They showed the footage the NVA filmed, then had about 15 sec of commentary where they quoted him as saying he was beaten because he wasn't gracious enough to his captors/rescuers.
Hardly a glowing political endorsement.
What this is showing me is that the US thought that high tech could win a very low tech war and that the NV were one step ahead of us the entire time, especially with the big picture.
This should be a primer for the messes we've gotten into more recently since some of the same circumstances hold true, such as no clear objectives and hearts and minds of the people.
Sadly, it looks like at least some lessons remain unlearned.
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