Thank you for watching this episode of the WarsofTheWorld. To watch the videos listed in this video in full please use the links below: Platoon Under Fire ua-cam.com/video/89_3DgW_7mg/v-deo.html The Battle of Hamburger Hill ua-cam.com/video/r5iTw5g_KiA/v-deo.html Vietnam Bombings ua-cam.com/video/rrVqBqqq5AA/v-deo.html Viet Cong Ambush ua-cam.com/video/Dz4RiBMTRKw/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/TTjm8ZZ68lg/v-deo.html
Youre the guy who does unexplained mysteries. I know your voice. Ive been following your Unexplained Channel since the beginning. I also suspect you of being Top5s
You forgot to include the link to filmmaker David Hoffman's video "Magnificent Storyteller Soldier Reveals What He Saw In Vietnam" where Bill Earhart recounts his experiences: ua-cam.com/video/tixOyiR8B-8/v-deo.html
Hi, I am a 73 year old Vietnam Combat Vet (1966 to 1969) USS Providence and In Country at "Monkey Mountain" by Danang. I am on VA Disability from exposure to Agent Orange. I enlisted in the US Navy when I was 17 years old. Three of my High school friends were killed in Vietnam, I was spared. Participated in the TET Offensive 1968.God bless all Vietnam Vets. You are not forgotten.
Thank you for your service and kick that agent orange in the ass sir. When you boys came back the public reaction was disgusting. I came a decade after the war and when I saw how the public welcomed you all home it disgusted me. I don’t know if you will see this Denny but you’re a brave man that deserves the highest respect. God speed Denny.
I’m a Australian, my father was killed by a Mine in Vietnam 4 months before I was born. So the pain of conflict was passed onto me… I went on to join the Australian Army when I was 18 becoming a Sapper and serving for 7 years… I learnt how to lay mines and disarm them which was good for the soul….
As soon as I got my notice to report for my physical, I enlisted in the Navy. USNR/USN 1966-1994. Two deployments to Viet Nam but with dry clothes and hot meals. I even volunteered for duty in country but was turned down twice.
I am so sorry about your friends I know that most of the people who got drafted ended up on the front lines I appreciate your service and thank you every thing u did for our country
My Dad, John E Currin served in country 68-69 with 3rd Batallion 26th Marines...3/26. Wounded, 3 purple hearts. I never really asked him about being over there because i knew he didn't want to talk about it, hell, even the 4th of July would really make him pissed off and on edge. I miss him dearly every single day. He died in 2016 while riding his Harley in Mexico, him and friends rode all the way from Oregon to Mexico. He loved being on his Harley more than anything in this world (besides my mom of course). But he left this world doing what he loved the most. I want to say Welcome Home to all who came home from Vietnam, and thank you to all who served.
Woww Keith....do you also have nice words for the families of the 4 million Vietnamese people that were murdered and the millions that were seriously wounded by Americain soldiers?? Or did you forget about that? One of the Vietnam vets said : "who cares". What do you say?
My Dad was a Vietnam Vet and I say God Bless You all and Thank you for fighting a war that no one gave you thanks for fighting. I do. We all feel different after finishing a job than we do when starting it, but you guys had no choice. I thank you for coming back alive, that was my 34-36 year old Dad's biggest regret, those of you he could not bring back home. Army, Infantry, Reconnaissance. Ist Cav, Ft. Hood, 1966, '68. SSGT James D. Headley.
Always breaks my heart to listen to Vietnam Vets. Fought a war that was a mess and came home to be treated like dirt. I always say welcome home to a Vietnam Vet because the never heard that when they should have. 🙏🏽
My wife is South Vietnamese, her mother, father, and their siblings fought in the war - and suffered terribly when they were abandoned to the Viet Cong. Yet as a child of "traitors" she is so forgiving and loving a person to those (on both sides) responsible for her family's sufferings.........just goes to show that time does heal - albeit slowly. May all affected by that war find peace.
Unknown to me for 47 years.. I fathered a daughter during my year there. She and I went back to her hometown north of HCMC (Saigon) in 2019. I met so many people, her cousins, friends, etc. I felt sure some probably were VC during the war but had no proof. But I was amazed at how all had changed so drastically.. and how friendly everyone was to me. I was treated like a celebrity. I felt very safe and relaxed and it was fun being there again after so many years. Yes time does heal.
Watch the Winter Soldier documentary, see why they were considered traitors, but the treatment was usually not to harsh compared to the other side, witch isn't saying much.
..My father knew a good number of VietNam veterans, so when growing up I got to hear a good many stories from those that had survived. These men & women will always have my respect!
These men..and so on, went to a far away small country and murdered 4 million people in 3 countries that did not had threaten nor attaqued the US. What is there to be proud of?? Please tell me. The US did not even declare the war to Vietnam, nor to Laos, and Cambodia. Every person that died because of these illegal wars is according to national and international laws murdered.
I was born in late 1965 so I don't remember much about the Vietnam War but it affected my family. My cousin was killed there in 1970, my stepfather died from Agent Orange in 1999 and my brother-in-law is still haunted by the war fifty years later. I served in the Air Force towards the end of the Cold War and was in Desert Storm in 1991 and have a special place in my heart for Vietnam veterans. They were treated like garbage when they came home unlike these younger veterans who were in Iraq and Afghanistan and are given tons of respect. It just doesn't seem fair. God bless all Americans who defend our country and try to liberate other countries from evil dictators and regimes.
“Liberate other countries” by terrorizing the homeland of others? What about the countless lives of the innocent civilians who wanted no part of any war whatsoever but had been dragged into the chaos due to American political agenda and ideology? From Korea, Vietnam to the Middle East…How is it liberation when your government is the one deciding to invade other countries and causing catastrophic destruction to their civilians? Hmmmm… How does one bend the truth like that? Really?
Wauww...........those nice words for the veterans. They should not be there in the first place. But you all were brainwashed by your criminal politicians.......presidents, Kissenger, McNamara and many other high ranked politicians. The US army was not there to help the Vietnamese people, or to protect the US.. How in heavens name could these US soldiers back this war and be proud of all veterans?? They, Americain soldiers, have murdered 4 million people, they have been raping women on a huge scale, they have been killing babies, burning down many many villages with napalm, they been torturing people, mutilated bodies. There is not one warcrime that they did not commit. So Joseph, what do you have to say to the Vietnamese people and the people of Laos and Cambodia? Those countries did not threaten nor attaque the US. Are you proud about your country?
God bless all of those who were in Vietnam or any war. I'm glad this came up on my channel as a reminder of things I take for granted every day that our soldiers have paid the ultimate price for. Thank you to all our military men and women for your bravery and sacrifice.
Nobody in your lifetime died for your freedoms. Not a single US soldier has died defending your rights and liberties in that time. Not unless you were born during or before WW2.
I enlisted during the Gulf War to show support to my uncle's who enlisted during the Vietnam War. Our Vietnam vets are our unsung heros...God bless everyone of them 👍
I missed going to Vietnam by 12 to 18 months, I graduated in 1975 just one month after the fall of Saigon. That summer I ended up working with several of the boat people at Radig Vault Co. where I had worked through out high school. My boss Pete Goria was a catholic and sponsored several families. I got the opportunity to go to their homes, which were apartments provided by the church. I met and ate with their families. They were hard working and a grateful people. They had no love for the Communist. I felt sorry for them. I felt we betrayed them. I was very aware of the war. I had grown up during the war and watched it on TV every night. I read up on the history of the people of Indochina. There people I knew that were 5 to 10 years older than me who had been to Vietnam. Some did not return. Also I had two cousins who served in theater, one in the Navy and the other in the US Army. Both were there during the Tet 68 Offensive. The cousin in the Army was surprised when he came back after his tour to find out that Walter Cronkite had said the US and South Vietnamese had been defeated during Tet. Both cousin thought Walter Cronkite's opinion was wrong. They also thought that the US should have crossed into Cambodia and Laos and put several divisions at the head of the Ho Chin Minh trail and blocked it off as well as the DMZ. They thought that we should have never stopped or even paused the bombing of the North until they gave up the fight and let the Republic of Vietnam be free. It was not the men in these videos that lost the war. It was the media, politician, academia, the Left, and the American people that lost the war. The war was to costly. It interfered with their lives. And it certainly something that needed to be stopped, if their sons and daughters might have to go. Nothing should be allowed to interrupt the college and business careers of the upper middle class, Buffy and Jody can't go. Finally I will tell you a true story. It was my "Vietnam War Story". Now I have talked to many vets. I have also over the years talked to many of the Hmong, Montagnards, Laotians, Cambodians and South Vietnamese who fled the Communist. And it may be true that their perspective may be skewed, but no more than the media, academia, and the Left. The story goes like this, a year or so after I got out of the Navy say about 1980. I started stopping by a Chinese restaurant in my home town that had recently opened up. I would usually stop by on the way home from work on Friday and treat myself to dinner. The couple that owned the restaurant was at the most 5 years older than me. They both spoke very well. The woman was call Maria. That was not her real name, that was her American pseudonym, because her real name for an American was to hard to say or at least Americans like me. Anyway one Friday I came in at 4:30pm, by had just opened up and like many other times when it was slow either husband or wife would drop by my table and talk until business picked up. Well on this Friday I asked her for her story. You know where her and her husband was from, how they met, their family, etc. Come to find out she met her husband in Taiwan and had married there. So I asked if she had grown up in Taiwan too. She said no, she said she was an ethnic Chinese, but she had been born and raise in Cambodia. She along some family members had endured the Khmer Rouge and the Killing Fields, but they had escaped. While other family members had been killed by the Khmer Rouge. She went on and it was pretty bad what she had went through. Then I asked her about what see thought about the US involvement in SE Asia. Now I imagine she was anti-Communist and would have sided with the US. And she was and did. She looked at me very seriously, the normal happy smile disappeared. She asked me, do you really want to know my opinion. I told yes of course, your opinion was more important than mine in this case due to the fact that she was from the region and the war and Communist had impacted her life so much. She said, "My opinion is that America came, killed a lot of people, destroyed a lot of things, spent a lot of money, sacrificed a lot of their sons, betrayed a lot of people and you failed!" Needless to say I was stunned. I said but look at our sacrifices in blood and treasure, 10 years of political turmoil inside the US. 58,000 Americans dead, over a million Vietnamese North and South dead. I said how many deaths and how much treasure would have been enough. Her reply was, "The numbers do not matter, you could have killed 10 times as many people or even 100 times as many people. It would not matter. Success is all that matters! Your failure cost more lives than the war and brought more destruction. Your failure to do what was necessary, betrayed all the people of SE Asia to the rule of the NVA, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao for decades to come." She said "Americans could have been like the Europeans and not gotten involved." I replied, "So your saying Americans should not get involved." Then she smiled and her face softened. She said, "No, America has to be involved, it is the worlds only hope. America just can't fail!" Needless to say, after that, her and I had many conversations and I learned a different point of view. It has been over 40 years since Maria and I had that conversation, but I think about it every time I watch the news and politics in this country. At the time, I had the naïve idea about the war and the world. The idea is that America did her best, made the sacrifice, and that is all the world could ask. Sometime after the conversation with Maria, I was watching one of the Star Wars movies. There is Yoda and Luke on the swamp planet and Luke fails to lift the X wing fighter. Yoda say "DO OR DO NOT THERE IS NO TRY!' It has been a long time since I had that conversation with Maria. The restaurant is closed. Her and her husband have another business somewhere else. I lost contact with them 5 years after the conversation. Over the 40 years after the conversation, I look at the history since Vietnam. The US has been involved in conflicts many times and though militarily, we always seem to prevail. Politically the end results always seem disappointing. Don't know what we can do as a nation to straighten out our political situation. It seems to always throw away hard won victories by bungling the politics. Maybe we just need to shoot the media, the academics, the Left, and the political class.
She has a brain but lack ability of logic thinking , if the communists hadn't succeed in seizing the South the Khmer Rouge would have had no chance to take over power in Cambodia. She didn't figure out the way things took place in series. China Dream of hememony is the last segment of this series, both innocent people of Vietnam and Cambodia were sky goats sacrified for China's ultimate ambition. Got it ?
@@thikimhanguyen6425 I don't think what you have said contradicts what I said. Without the fall of Saigon and NVA success. the Pathet Lao and the Khmer Rouge would have no chance of success and is only an irritant to the political leaders of Lao and Cambodia. The Soviets and CCP were the sponsors for all Communist movement in SE Asia. Only after the Americans left do the different Communist movement split and fracture between the Soviets and CCP. North and South Vietnam were the major powers in SE Asia. Laos and Cambodia were subordinate compared to the two Vietnams.
It’s sad how people treated these man when they came back home. The civilians should of gotten mad at the president and the generals. The young men didn’t have a choice. This war and the war in Afghanistan is why I have so much respect for people in the military. People don’t realize how lucky they are to have the freedoms they have now.
Agreed. The vet saying that they "created" the Vietcong is like how America "created" al-qaeda because of the country's actions in the Middle East. America's "freedoms" were never in jeopardy by Vietnam or the Middle East. The country created its own enemies by being too imperialistic in those areas.
AgieSebie that’s what the president and others thought. They thought communism would spread through Vietnam and then from there other countries near by
@@AgieSebie The '60s were an entirely different decade, indeed the polar opposite of the 2010's. It was hot on the heels of communist North Korea's surprise invasion of South Korea that literally pushed all of South Korea so far south that they were almost pushed off the peninsula and into the sea before we could engage. Then that turned into the down and dirty Korean War (aka the "Forgotten War"). The Cold War was at it's height, with very regular acts of brinksmanship by the USSR on the high seas, regularly cutting off and sometimes even bumping their ships into ours. My civilian engineer father was the Deputy Director of the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command, Bureau of Weapons which basically designed all the warships including their guns, missiles, and integrated radar systems, so we kind of were more privy to what was going on. Do you remember the Cuban nuclear missile blockade that almost devolved into a shooting war in October 1962? Then on live and in color TV in November 1963 you could watch your President get his head blown apart, Just like 9/11, which was kid stuff compared to having your President assassinated so violently, everything came to a stop including removing us from and closing down schools (a memory I'll never forget) while we wondered, as on 9/11, if it was done by the USSR or some communist proxy country as a prelude to war.The sixties, if you were alive to experience them, were incredibly tense and intense. The '60s slowly ratcheted up in involvement and battle intensity, and MLK Jr. and RFK were assassinated. We entered into the war with noble intentions, answering the call of an ally and showing the USSR that we would not only not tolerate the communist expansion into the western hemisphere (ie. Cuba) but anywhere in the world where people like the South Koreans didn't want it. This was chess on a global political scale between countres (ie. the U.S and U.S.S.R.) armed to the teeth with thousands of nuclear weapons. Hell, the U.S. had nuclear armed bombs, missiles, field artillery shells, and even grenades (which were highly impractical for obvious reasons). We also had a few broken arrow incidents (the Arctic, off Georgia, and off Spain, an ally of ours). President Johnson inherited a clusterf**k from JFK and had so much of the second guessing, lack of the South Vietnamese army's inability to fight for their own country, the countrculture's violent demonstrations which sometimes turned very bloody (ie. Kent State and lesser encounters) that he announced to the nation that he was in no way, shape or form going to run for a second term. Our involvement in Vietnam was a mess, and yes i had skin in the game. My first cousin was on the graveyard squad, going into fields of battle afterwards on a Huey to pick up our dead solidiers. He came home with a real good dose of PTSD, at a time when they didn't know what it was let alone how to treat it. Yes, hindsight offers us the benefit of 20/20 vision. Vietnam was a terrible mess for everyone involved however it did have beneficial aspects. It demonstrated to the USSR that we'd commit to getting ourselves militarily bloodied and stay for more. There was determination behind our words. While it may have been a tactical loss Vietnam was a strategic win in that it demonstrated to the USSR and other not so friendly countries that we were a force to contend with. The iron curtain didn't deteriorate merely beginning with the fall of the Berlin wall just because those Iron Curtain citizens wanted the lives and standard of living of the U.S. citizens, beamed in via TV. The USSR had to spend money they didn't have trying to keep up with our military R & D, and actual deployment of advanced weaponry. The USSR unraveled because they bankrupted themselves trying to keep up with us and still couldn't. When you pull one long string it can have profound results down the road. I am very sorry for the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who suffered so much in the war. I came very close to having to go through the birthday date lottery for being drafted and my cousin suffered dearly. However, the '60s were a time of change, the equivalent of two decades crammed into one compared to today. No ome knew how things would turn out going in and the great social change was a necessity. I see alot of Vietnam in the goings on in Afghanistan, and we should extricate ourselves ASAP. My own ex-wife was deployed to a MASH unit during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Nonetheless, there is no way someone who didn't live through the sixties can fully understand the decade or put it in the proper perspective of our days today. Understand however, I always thank the enlisted for their service and feel for them.
@@danielfronc4304 ideology is no reason to go to war and kill millions. There were no good intentions from the very beginning. I'm 64 and glad I was too young. At 14 years old in 1970 there was no hindsight for me I knew that war was wrong immoral and uncivilized sorry you didn't.
my grandpa was going to have to go but he got to stay since my grandma was pregnant with my dad and uncle. so there was a chance that i may not be here right now lol.
My family is made up of vets and my Dad was in Vietnam (1970-1972) as a USMC combat engineer. His best friend (my mother's brother) also served (68-69) in the Air Force in Vietnam. Nearly all of my Dad's friends are Vietnam combat vets and I've met veterans from WW2 up to Iraq. So I've heard a laundry list of things that would chill your blood.
First of all to the Narrator of this video. This video don't even start to tell the real story of the Vietnam Veteran. Not every veteran was in a life or death conflict. As well as not all had a cushion job. And lets not forget the Medics, Doctors, and Nurses that save a lot of lifes. And my favorite was the helicopter pilots that saved our ass's many of times. We all had a job to do and we did it to the best of our ability. I am so thankful that I wasn't with the first guy in this video. WHY? Because he was a fucking idiot and was damn lucky he came home at all. We had those type that didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground. Otherwise he was not properly trained for what he was about to see. The second man was just doing what the ROCK ARMY (Korea Army) had been doing as far as the ears go. The men that did these type of things needed to be held responsible for their actions. I was there in 1967-68 and it was no damn picnic no matter where you were. I remember the TET OFFENSIVE (Vietnamese New Year) in 68. Believe me there is no way you can remember how many enemy you killed. Because they were everywhere you looked. They come and kept on coming for hours. Did I ever kill any? Yes but when you are in a situation to where it's either you or him you don't hesitate to pull the trigger. Because if you do, you will die on the spot either by gun or bayonet from the enemy. And to this day I couldn't begin to say as the other guy did how many I killed. Because as far as I was concerned they were nothing but targets with no human value. I am sorry for such a long comment but I feel that it had to be said because of the type of content.
I'm a Navy vet of the Vietnam War. I was on a DD. I always felt a little guilty that my older brother was a Marine who did 3 separate tours in Vietnam. in country. I stayed in the military after getting out of the Navy, joining the Army National Guard. I was a medic, and over 30 years later, my unit was deployed to Iraq. At 54, I was going into a combat zone, and it seemed surreal. I told my brother how I had felt that I got off easy during Vietnam and he said "You didn't miss anything that you didn't need to miss. I wouldn't do it again, and I wouldn't want to be in your shoes right now. " When I got over there, I learned what he meant. I saw more death, misery, gruesomeness and sadness as a medic treating casualties than I had ever seen in many years working in a major trauma center in my civilian job over here. I had a 7 year old child, caught in a crossfire die in my arms. I will never forget the screams, the pain. War is always ugly and sad. I know this video laid some emotions raw for you. It did for me, too. As a brother vet, I salute you for your service. You are right, we had a job to do, and we did the best we could.
I appreciate this account. For real. I find the narration does it an injustice by trying to make it different from any other kind of war. War never changes. The people, the weapons, the technology sure, but war is war. Thank you sir for you account.
I have a Vietnamese friend who’s father served in the NVA during this war. He was conscripted, didn’t want any part of it and speaks little of the horrors he experienced as a young man. His and his comrades story is as sad as that of the American servicemen.
@@ihs51 no, half of the country wanted one thing and the other half wanted another. If you think the south wanted the Americans gone then you haven't read much on the war. People were clinging to our helicopters as they left so they weren't stuck when the north took over
@@chillychese Actually, the Vietnamese population were never asked. After the French were kicked out, Vietnam was divided just as Korea was after WWII. However, a promise was made that the Vietnamese population were to have an election by 1959 to decide for themselves. This promise was of course not kept and guess which country did not keep its promise. USA! USA was afraid that a majority would vote for a communist government and that was basically what slowly started the conflict since the North started actions in South Vietnam. USA never had a strategy for Vietnam. USA believed that if they killed sufficient numbers of Vietnamese, the North would agree to a divided Vietnam. USA basically learned nothing from WWII. Vietnam never attacked USA. In the eyes of the North Vietnamese, USA was the invader just as the Russians had previously viewed the Nazis as invaders. Many more than 3 million Russians were killed during WWII and they kept on fighting, bleeding out the Wehrmacht. The same strategy was used on the Americans in Vietnam. To North Vietnam, it did not matter how many Vietnamese died. Their goal was to ensure as many Americans were killed and wounded because they knew that the support from home would eventually change. At the end of the day, the regime USA supported in South Vietnam was a dictatorship. It had nothing to do with democracy. USA simply chose to fight an unjust war. It's simply hilarious that Americans only talk about their so-called heroes from Vietnam and always forget the millions of Vietnamese that were killed in the process because USA got involved in a conflict they should never have gotten involved in.
I would argue these scenes are more graphic... intense than movies.. by far. After watching many documentaries recently about WWII and now this.. no movie will ever compare to the horror of what these guys went through.
@@daviddou1408 My great grandpa was killed by agent orange, he was in the 101st airborne and was a sharpshooter. He survived getting shot (I still have his bloodied uniform) only to come home and form a cancer from the chemicals and die. (Edit: I'm sure he would have had good stories to tell aswell lol)
@@daviddou1408 That is total bullshit. Agent Orange was manufactured exclusively in the US by Monsanto and Dow Chemical, as well as a few other smaller companies. Do your research before spouting harmful nonsense like this.
A war I didn’t have to experience because I had the fortune to be Canadian living 75 miles north of the border. As a 71 year old male, I look at the Vietnam War, that caused terrible psychological damage of my American brothers, as a hell on earth. I was spared from this horrifying experience and feel grateful that Canada thought it better not to participate.
History has proven LBJ even until work got too much for him wanted control down to weapons & supplies used daily in Vietnam so he could control kick backs to his bank account. Look it up yourself. People want knock down statues and signs in USA now. They should start with that low life 1st. I find very hard find anything nice say or he did good for his country.
I have deep respect to all Veterans, for their sacrifice, courage, service and the Haunting memories they can never unsee. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 my Father served in WWII & Korea along with 6 of his 8 brothers serving as well. 1 Gold Star amongst them and a variety of metals. Then my youngest Son decline football scholarships to enlist and service in Iraq. The boy that went was not the same man that returned..... 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I went to the "WALL" when it was first dedicated. I and another vet watching... He turned and said, "You Know... the names....I think those are the lucky ones"...Years later, I realize what he meant......All the shit we had to take...An had to deal with, most of us overcame......Others.....not so much...GOD Bless you all, an welcome home.....
I and my wife thank all American veterans for their bravery and courage to impose American will and humanity across the world. You have our undying admiration and support.
Thank you to all Veterans in the Viet nam war. I was 10 living on a military base in Frankfurt Germany but I learned alot about the war on the 7 pm news and talking to GIs. And not for one minute did it seem to me that there would be people cheering for Americans with flowers and wine .Any one who I ever talked to that was over there said it was insane and awful. At 13 my father was stationed in Australia as an Americancan diplomat. I had the honor of hanging out with about 20 American GIs one day who were on R n R in Sydney from Vietnam. Once again not one of these guys had the misconseption that they were liberators.They said kid do your best to stay out of vietnam its hell. None of them to my knowkedge really knew why tbey were there. Their number came up and they went.
Australian here. My dad (and plenty of his mates) went to Vietnam. He wasn't happy about it, but, he was proud that he served his country. Whilst I respect your "anti-war" sentiments, if you are going to have "voice overs," describing what went on, how about getting a veteran's perspective also? They'll probably wholeheartedly agree with you. I know my Dad would. He TOTALLY despised the idea of war. Begged him to tell me stories as a kid-teen..."you don't need to know about that bullshit..." Then as I got older (and had my own "life experiences" - nothing compared to him at age 22-25) he would tell me "the gory crap...the bullshit and total nonsense Senior leaders we had back then, Officers who wouldn't know a tree trunk was up their arse until they started combing splinters outta their parted hair styles..." stories of talking to your mate (best man at your wedding) in the morning and seeing is brains come spraying out 5 hrs later on an op...." etc I could probably write a book myself on what my Dad told me, but, there's a BIG shadow of "stolen valour" (well, in my dumb arse mind) about writing another mans story. You're obviously putting effort into doing documentaries, which are rather good! Please consider getting the 1st hand point of view from those who were actually there.
Australian 'THERE'... Outside of warmongers and politicians with agendas (and military brass too), do you think most people want "war"?? Pretty sure that the Ukrainians would rather NOT pick up body parts of kids, civilians, and all they once lived in semi-peace = lands of theirs. WAR is fucking HELL... Personally, while I feel sorry that you were forced by your father to try to understand and loath war (as you should), you have NO Right to speak on stories passed to you 2nd and third hand, and with agendas and personal regrets (your father, etc)... "My daddy told me"... FYI, there is NO stolen valor on the battlefield... There are just men, and cowards... Stolen valor comes after the fight is over.. Lastly, and I have totally left a lot out of here you SI$$IE... "Please consider getting the 1st hand point of view from those who were actually there..."?? They have a number of somewhat good "war movies" that could cover you.. Like you would know what it is like to be shot or brains, balls, guts and intestines splattered.. I have a lot of dead friends.. None of which, are a coward like you... P.S. Sorry, if my thoughts upset you..
It's interesting you say that but thing is, even those veterans represent a small picture of what truly happened and most of the time, they would glorify and hide what they truly did and also are biased because they suffered stress and harbour hatred towards the enemy. That's why it's always better to do research and get perspective of an unbiased person. You can look up the video on youtube "Vietnam War #3 (Rape & Murder). They also mention about hte SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) towards civilians. It was that of an often occurance. Not all soldiers did that but many of them did and they have the media hiding those bs.
One reason I joined the Army was because of all those who served in Vietnam. I was obsessed with that war as a teenager. I got a MAC-V patch from an old SF CSM I knew who re-upped 4 times to fight there. Never talked about it, but when I mentioned MAC-V, he looked at me like I should have never known that acronym. "MAC-V?", he said and looked long and hard in silence. "I'll see what I can do", he said. A few weeks later he called me to his office and opened an envelope with the color patch inside. He got it from his brother who was an E8 and also served in Vietnam. He had taken the patch off his old BDUs. Tragically during the time the patch got to me his brother was killed in a car accident. "When it's time to go, it's time to go", was the answer of the SF guy. Hard as nails, as many Vets were. Thank you for your service and RIP. POW-MIA💪🙏🇺🇸
My grandfather served for 4 years straight without coming home in WW2, He was an airplane mechanic stationed in the CBI (China Burma India) He repaired the planes flying the Hump over China, He was proud of his time and I was proud of him, I can still hear his excitement when talking about his trips to Calcutta!
72 Marines died for taking a hill with no strategic importance? The officers and the generals who decided this should have been court martialed....what a waste of life...
My father spent 8 yrs.( 62-71)( not consecutively) in Vietnam.He recieved a bronze star an silver star...He never spoke, (never) of his time there.I can't imagine the horrors for both sides.I still to this day question, what the great reason was for that war.That so many lost their lives an so many who experienced it had their lives forever changed. RIP Lt.Col.J.J. Treadwell 3rd.
A good many of those who served in Vietnam died there. Not just those whose names are honoured on the wall, but many of those who also returned. They arrived in Vietnam with a youthful, naive dream of a future full of hope, ambition and enthusiasm. Depending on your brief while in-country', that was all extinguished in a very short time and your sole focus became one of survival. The young kid who left was not the old man who returned, hence the analogy to death. I have heard some vets say that actually the lucky ones were those who never survived because their demise would have saved them a lot of suffering and disappointment and spared the pain they have caused loved ones since. I suspect many living on the streets of the large affluent cities share similar sentiments. Others have been lucky enough to find a parachute, usually in the form of a strong , understanding and loving wife.
For what it's worth, I appreciate you and your service. Your bravery did not and still doesn't go unnoticed. Never met you, but thank you for protecting me and my family. God bless you sir
Learned a lot in 71 to 72 .13 months you can never get away from it. Some times you think wow .Then you live with the friends you have left. There are no winners only servers
We were married 1969. He was drafted 6 mos later. I hated Nixon. When he came home 2 yrs later..full uniform..patches..medals when back on American soil. Was called baby killer stuff thrown at them he couldn’t get uniform off quick enough. He was a paratroop and sgt. he died 10 yrs ago. We were married 43 yrs. I miss him.
Damn my dad told me some crazy shit didn't believe him up until I was deployed and saw the real colors of war rip dad and always will remember you, great video as always!!!!!
My dad was in Vietnam from 1969-1971 in army as a door gunner. He never spoke about it, when I enlisted in the MARINE CORPS He sinply said, when i get back stateside we will get a beer and talk. Now i understand why he never spoke about it.
I was a bit young for Vietnam. But, like a million other young men, I received that letter from Selective Service to register for the draft. Its message was clear and simple: ' we need your body for cannon fodder. You are expendable. You have no choice.' At that time, the feminists were marching the streets demanding My Body, My Choice. Then they spat on young men returning from the war.
Theese guys were drafted young with 60s,70s weaponry and tech. They were really tested over there. God bless the ones who made it back and give peace to ones who didnt.
It was tough all around for Vietnam vets returning home. I served 3.5 years in infantry as 11b10. I was born in 58 and was only 15 in 74 when war ended. I enlisted in 76 and looked old for my age. I had to show girls my ID to prove I did not serve in Vietnam or they would not go out with me. They all thought I was a Vietnam vet and I had to show my ID to prove I was too young. Vets return from combat had it bad and we're treated poorly In 2004 I went to Iraq and spent 7 years working in combat zones and 1 year in Afghanistan as a contractor working for military repairing A/C units and installing them and helped rewire bases in Afghanistan. Saw the bodies blown up and missing limbs. But Vietnam was often fought in the jungle and the guys had to suffer so much only to come home after time served and treated so badly. War s*cks. Nothing positive becomes from it. Death, broken bodies and souls and a life time of nightmares.
As a Vet myself, in the first firefight ALL I noticed from the sounds of combat were there were NO M-79 sounds, they had either lost their Grenadier or they were already out of 40mm ammo....
@@TheSpritz0 around what time are you talking about? I thought they phased out the m79 pretty quick for the m203, Im not sure though it’s just an assumption.
@@bananafarmer4204 Some US Navy SEALs and Army Special Forces in Iraq have been seen using the M79 in recent years, due to its greater accuracy and range compared to the M203 (350m effective versus 150 m effective on the M203).
Why don't you show videos of the British troops evacuated from Dunkirk who cussed the RAF for not showing up and use it as a way to imply the RAF was inept? And Vietnam wasn't "unified" in 1975, North Vietnam invaded a sovereign nation just the same as if North Korea invaded South Korea tomorrow, that's why US troops were there, to keep a country run by communist thugs who broke every treaty they signed from invading the South, like the treaty they signed when North and South Vietnam were formed that the North signed saying they'd never invade the South. When North Vietnam invaded the South after US troops left in 75 they went from village to village on the way rounding up school teachers, priests and town officials and executed them, tens of thousands of them, then after they took the country over they rounded up over 300,000 people and sent them off to "re-education" camps many of whom were never seen or heard from by their families again, and between the invasion in 1975 and 1979 2.5 million people fled the country because of the communist takeover. That's why US troops were in Vietnam in the first place, to keep that from happening, just like why they were in Europe during the cold war, to keep the Soviets from invading the countries in Western Europe, like England.
They didn't get welcome back in Australia either mate. Left wing hippy ardeholes used to shower them in animals blood and call them baby murderers. Pretty horrid considering many were conscripts and forced to go. Australia had never had conscripts before and hopefully never will again. Some of my closest friends grew up living under communism. I'd fight to stop it . It's a brutal regime that persecutes all but the very top layer of useless beuracrats.
Many veterans protested the war by throwing back their medals. They would totally kneel in protest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Against_the_War
I was in Vietnam in 1965/66 as a civilian and it took me less than six weeks to fully realize that the American war against the Vietnamese was going to end in failure. After all, Americans, as a general rule, are not deep thinkers and therefore they failed to understand that they could not possibly win a war of attrition, where the goal was to wear down the enemy through continuous engagement and high casualties.
My tour was in south Vietnam , the delta...River assault division 13...7 men lived full time on a landing attack boat. Left over ww11 and retro fitted to fit a platoon of infantry and our crew..I was a twenty mm gunner..wounded three times ,11 direct rocket hits, one 59 day period we had 61 firefights, 58 lost 518 wounded, navy/army. Living conditions sucked ,I went over 160 lbs..came back 119. Lbs, still have health problems!
theres a video of a news crew who were next to a tank, with a young soldier and he asked him a couple questions. It starts again with a large explosion and they explained it was the tank and that kid was killed instantly. It happened so many times, but for some reason that one haunts me he was just a kid and like that he is just gone. It happened thousands of times and is hard to think about. Ill always have incredible respect for those guys, they went through hell.
Respect to the heroic Vietnamese bravely defending their families and homeland from foreign enemy invaders. You held the line against all odds. Incredible fighting force. Patriotic Heroes. 🇻🇳
Google: "Dak son massacre" , your heroic NVA/VC Vietnamese slaughtered whole Montagnard village killing the native Ppl , Kids, babys, elderly, women and Men with Handgrenades, Rifles;Bayonetts and Flamethrowers. Some Montagnard tribes in central highlands living at the time like Stoneage folks hunting with Spears, Bow and arrows, poor folks sandwhiched between the to sides and dragged into a war that was not their "buisness", Vietnamese in South and North despised them as Savages, those tribes werent even Vietnamese they are of Polynesian origin.
On the Sergeant "shot twice in the leg"--- he was treated and returned to duty; he did not go home. And, it wasn't even the first time he'd been wounded. The news episode was wrong. The Sergeant wrote a book and specifically mentions his wounding and the false information around it.
Such a dramatic contrast of the bloodshed of war and the calm & surreal voice of the commentator's voice. Listening to him was almost a ASMR experience.
All 4 of my cousins, just a little older than I went. Three were from Louisiana. One took leave in Saigon and got on heroin. He got a dishonorable discharge.The other 2 from LA got back ok after 12 months but were changed men. My other cousin was a door gunner on a Huey. He and the pilot decided to switch positions on day. The pilot could not shoot and my cousin could not keep the cyclic in sync so he could not fly in a straight line. They switched back. My son-in-law who spent most of his time playing video games got sent to Iraq (medic) and found himself in Afghanistan finally working at a POW camp. It made a man out of him. My older brother talked me out of joining the Navy. Today, I still regret that decision. My dad fought in the battle of the Bulge WWII. The U.S. was a nation of brave me and still is but there are some who are hate this country. In WWII as men waited to land in Normandy facing certain death there are some young men that words hurt them. This sickens me.
Second post, one thing that is very rarely mentioned about the Vietnam war, is how it started and why we went there. There is a "deleted" scene in Apocalypse Now that you can see in the Redux version where they go to a plantation. It's about 25-30mins long, but basically it's the owner of the plantation telling about how it all started. Simply, the U.S. went to Vietnam to, once again, bail out the French. They failed in WW1 and and WW2, and now they failed again in Vietnam, and we were sent in to help. They left us there and didn't help us.
When Richard Nixon assumed the presidency in the spring of 1968, he and Henry Kissinger determined that the Vietnam War could not be won. But he reasoned that the US could not merely withdraw its troops, that would be an embarrassment. So they came up with the idea of staying in Vietnam, gradually turning it over to the South Vietnamese and then getting the troops out. The reason that South Vietnam might survive about four years with us being gone; it actually survived less than two years. 10s of thousands of young men died so that Richard Nixon and the US would not be embarrassed. Several of my friends and I enlisted in the spring of 1969. Some were dead within a year. Little did we know that we had joined the Army to fight in a war that our government had already determined was a lost cause.
Hamburger Hill was fought in order to bring the North Vietnamese Army to battle and to see how they matched up to the US forces. This was the first time in the war that the the NVA faced off against the US toe to toe. In a war of attrition, the ability to inflict disproportionate casualties, in this case 10 to 1, you have to bleed the enemy dry. 600+ bodies were found after the battle, that only accounts for the dead that were left in place, it does not account for the dead that were removed from the battle space nor does it take into account the vast numbers of wounded NVA. While not a victory in the traditional sense, the outcome of the battle dispensed with the NVA invincibility.
I believe you are thinking of the FIRST encounter the American Army had with the North Vietnamese at the very beginning of the War. Hamburger Hill was much later. After that battle the President ordered the military to end that strategy ("kill more of them then they kill of ours")
It was an ego-trip by/for Col. Honeycutt - Westmoreland backed him, so it wasn't a big deal butchering his troops for some praise. He's lucky to not have been fragged.
My uncle was a flight medic pilot I think in 1969 and 70 maybe 71 because he graduated in 68. He volunteered though. Twice. Died of Parkinsons from Agent Orange in 2011. My dad was his twin brother.
My dad had no regrets serving in Nam twice but was pissed we didn't see that it was a lost cause helping them after TET they didn't want the troops there anymore.
1st. Cav.Div. Veteran. Served May-July9 1969 with the 1/12 Cav. Summer of ‘69 was a bad time to be there which was why I only lasted two months before getting shot.
Let's do a video on Communists and what they did to the Vietnamese people! Let's look at what the Communists did to the people in North Vietnam before they invaded the South. I'm an Australian Vietnam veteran and I can assure you we didn't operate like that which is portrayed in this video. I never saw an American act like this, either. And one fact above all - which I do agree with is that war is terrible. A war zone isn't a kindergarten - we never would have been there except the politicians couldn't get their shit together - on either side. And there is the real lesson of war - be careful who you allow into office … beware what ideologies and religions you allow to wheel and deal us into killing one another. Take more care, people, and we won't have wars.
The first interviewee had no clue what he was talking about. "the longer we were there the more VC there were". Rubbish! By early 1968 the VC had been defeated. That's why the North Vietnamese had to take over the fighting after Tet 1968 and massively reinforce the attempted takeover of the South Vietnamese, millions of which had escaped the horrors of the North when the country was portioned and escaped to the South. The South wasn't perfect but the NVA would kill anyone who didn't go along with the program, and it was, and is, a thousand times better than the Communist North. The US fought with one hand tied behind its back. Never again. I am a Vietnam Veteran of I Corp.
@B M The VC were North Vietnamese infiltrators...NOT locals. The recruited locals through terror and threats. And be that as it may, the American military WIPED out the VC during the Tet Offensive of 1968. American B-52's WIPED OUT the invading North Vietnamese Army in 1972. Those same B-52's would have ALSO wiped out the invading North Vietnamese Army of 1975...if the American Congress hadn't stabbed the South Vietnamese people in the back and with held those B-52's, contrary to Nixon's promise to the South when the peace treaty was signed in 1972.
@B M OF COURSE many North Vietnamese infiltrators were arrested and shipped off to internment camps! What ELSE could be done with them? The South Vietnamese farmers just wanted to be left alone. The Northern VC infiltrators wouldn't let them do that.
@B M Nonsense. You must be a North Vietnamese propaganda operative. I've TALKED to someone who was sent to one of those North Vietnamese death camps...and luckily escaped. As they said: "The Cambodians just killed people with shovels. The North Vietnamese were smart. They put people in those camps and just let them die from starvation and disease".
I was a Marine L/Cpl in Vietnam from 65-66 in the Walking Dead [D/1/9]. Experienced a year of hell. Upon return to states in June 1966 the Marine Corps did absolutely nothing to "welcome" me, provided no "debriefing" and offered no support. AMAZING! [Retired Psychologist]
I remember watching that war on tv when I was a kid, that's one reason why I enlisted in the Corp in '74. I still remember a V.C. being shot in the head by a South Vietnamese general on tv.
@LMSTactical I was just a kid back then, I dont even remember what year it was when it happened. It could have been in '69 when I was 13, not really sure. Just remember a stream of blood spurtin out of the bullet wound.
Seeing them execute that man without any trial let alone context. imagine watching that was a kid or teen. It would’ve fucked up anyone living then, guy who shot em ended up with a restaurant in NYC. Imagine how many people who saw that video ended up being served at this restaurant
I recall reading about an American doubting a Mountanyards body count. The Yard produces a bamboo tube and shakes out the contents. It's a big pile of ears. He tells the American, count them up and divide by two.
My dad was a Dustoff pilot from 65 - 66. Never opened up about his time there until about 6 months before he died. I remember going to see Apocalypse Now with him and my sisters at a matinee during Thanksgiving holiday, 1979. When the movie ended and the lights came up, he sat there riveted to his chair, silent, holding onto the armrests like someone on a rollercoaster ride, staring at the screen as the end credits rolled - must've been 5-7 minutes. We were the last to leave the theater. When asked, he said everything was okay, but didn't speak much for the rest of the evening. Was tempted, but never got the chance to talk about that...
I'm tired of "analysis" by people who weren't there and have no experience. Was Hamburger Hill pointless? It only happened because "they were there"? What if the Army ignored them, only to receive a devastating attack a month later after the enemy was reinforced? Would these same armchair generals be criticizing THAT decision?
@@kingsmandean I stand corrected, and wasn't arguing that it was a meaningless battle. Just pointing out that the enemy did return to the hill after the US left. Thanks!
Clearly wasn't all that great of a decision being as they LOST THE WAR. They should never have been there in the first place. Killing people on their land when they didn't attack your country. A bullshit pointless political war which sent tens of thousands of Americans to their deaths and killed hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of civilians. It accomplished nothing and ended with the Americans literally being chased out of the country, the last few clinging onto a chopper as it barely got away in time. I've been to Vietnam. I've seen the bomb craters. I've seen the bullet holes. I've met the people that lived through it. Nothing the US did there was a "good decision".
I'm an old Marine grunt Rifleman...it was an age when reporting the news was honest...they showed how incompetent the strategies of this wars rules of engagements where handled by the Generals handlers.. these days Afghanistan isnt even reported on...why?...because they are told not to by their owners...big profit in war...where the whole thing is a scandal...as a vet...I salute all combat vets for their beliefs in fighting for freedom...however....wars have a agenda...for the Military industrial complex...and the profits of big business and the Bankers that profit from them
@@shaw9851 you all say that until we come knocking on your door... by the way im ex military and let's just say that over the next few weeks you will be seeing me face to face friend.
What I remember from my childhood were amputees everywhere on city sidewalks with cup in hand after WW II and Korea. Fewer men participated in Vietnam and those who did were rejected by their peers. A story told to me by a nurse at a veterans hospital about a young man who was to be married prior to his service in Vietnam. After his return and while still recovering from loss of multiple limbs his fiancée came to see him at the hospital soon after his return, took one look at his condition and walked out. The nurse told me it was the most emotional encounter of her and his lifetime, she broke down.
7 years of the childhood kid remember the toys and the place they go play etc , my different to all that I see and remember war dead body laying every where around me, to get from one side to other you have to walked on the dead body, imagine the body lay dead for days and the smell of it ?, every step you walking the guts pop out under your feet like a balloons, and when the bom drop? it's feels like someone kick or you get hit by a car in your chest feel like heavy weight press on etc , it's still haunting me till this day. I thanks for all the soldiers laying their life to keep peace for us to have a better life.
I worked in a Vietnamese kitchen in Canada in 2002-2003 and the head cook said he fled from the war wanted no part of it as did many Vietnamese people. Unfortunately many could not get free.
Vietnam was a civil war and like a lot of civil wars it was dirty, nasty and extremely cruel. You only have to look at the proportion of the populations killed in the US and English civil wars to see that.
Nige H The biggest contribution to the number of American civil casualties is the advancement in weapons technology was far superior to the tactics used. 10’s of thousands of men at a time ordered to their deaths. 600,000 total dead in a four year war is unsettling.
It wasn't a civil war - the north and south were divided (17th parallel) and autonomous countries as per the Geneva conference (1954 - France leaving Vietnam) - but the communists left troops behind to fight the south - basically it was a communist invasion to unify the country - as they proved in 1975, murdering 10's of thousands of non-communists. Stop revising history, stop the propaganda.
When they return into Sydney Harbour they weren't V- Day Hero's. You Can Disagree With A War & The Government. But You Never Ever Disrespect The Soldier. ~ LEST WE FORGET ~
War is hell, but what was even more devastating was the reception these young boys, who became men over night, recieved upon returning home. Many were mentally forced to become "Vietnam Vets against the war " in order to be treated like heroes. Those who chose to defend their service were defined as "war pigs" and accused of raping and killing children. Hollywood and John Kerry (comparing our troop to Ghangis Khan) only added to this misconception. In reality, the majority of these American heroes acted with valor, dignity and valued human life. They saw atrocities committed against innocent civilians and yet were unable to distinguish between enemy or foe. Americans who went crazy and committed war crimes were the exception, not the rule. 12 months under combat, no weekends or days off and very little sleep. One would require tremendous faith in God, family and country in order to avoid going 10/7. They had no "home coming" parades or public receptions. Their buses were pelted with rotten eggs at Ft. Lewis, spat upon and called vile names. They were warned not to wear their uniforms in public.. So many of these young heroes, who were unable to cope with the home treatment, turned to drugs and were lost before their 25th birthday. This video starts by saying that the war ended when the North invaded and unified Vietnam. No the war ended when protesters kept the politicians at bay, forcing them to sign a meaningless peace treaty which was broken by the North. Mass executions followed and the people now enjoy living under Communism making $800 a year. Our Vets deserved better, but they will always have a taste of freedom, the protected will NEVER know. God bless them all and may God forever bless America.
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His door analogy, Hitler had a similar one.
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You forgot to include the link to filmmaker David Hoffman's video "Magnificent Storyteller Soldier Reveals What He Saw In Vietnam" where Bill Earhart recounts his experiences: ua-cam.com/video/tixOyiR8B-8/v-deo.html
Hi, I am a 73 year old Vietnam Combat Vet (1966 to 1969) USS Providence and In Country at "Monkey Mountain" by Danang. I am on VA Disability from exposure to Agent Orange. I enlisted in the US Navy when I was 17 years old. Three of my High school friends were killed in Vietnam, I was spared. Participated in the TET Offensive 1968.God bless all Vietnam Vets. You are not forgotten.
Thank You for your service and Welcome Home
We still spray agent orange on our farm works good 😂
You were on a ship?
@@SpicyTexan64 Yes, the USS Providence, and also stationed in Country at a place called "Monkey Mountain" by DaNang
Thank you for your service and kick that agent orange in the ass sir. When you boys came back the public reaction was disgusting. I came a decade after the war and when I saw how the public welcomed you all home it disgusted me. I don’t know if you will see this Denny but you’re a brave man that deserves the highest respect. God speed Denny.
I’m a Australian, my father was killed by a Mine in Vietnam 4 months before I was born. So the pain of conflict was passed onto me… I went on to join the Australian Army when I was 18 becoming a Sapper and serving for 7 years… I learnt how to lay mines and disarm them which was good for the soul….
I was drafted but lucky to go to Germany however 4 high school buddies never came back from the war. Joe, Steve, George and Dale. God bless them.
As soon as I got my notice to report for my physical, I enlisted in the Navy. USNR/USN 1966-1994. Two deployments to Viet Nam but with dry clothes and hot meals. I even volunteered for duty in country but was turned down twice.
Respect brother in arms.
I am so sorry about your friends I know that most of the people who got drafted ended up on the front lines I appreciate your service and thank you every thing u did for our country
God bless them and RIP Joe Steve George and dale 🙏🍻
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My Dad, John E Currin served in country 68-69 with 3rd Batallion 26th Marines...3/26. Wounded, 3 purple hearts. I never really asked him about being over there because i knew he didn't want to talk about it, hell, even the 4th of July would really make him pissed off and on edge. I miss him dearly every single day. He died in 2016 while riding his Harley in Mexico, him and friends rode all the way from Oregon to Mexico. He loved being on his Harley more than anything in this world (besides my mom of course). But he left this world doing what he loved the most. I want to say Welcome Home to all who came home from Vietnam, and thank you to all who served.
I'm sorry for the loss of your Dad.
Thank you all nam
vets, I’m glad you all are getting recognition for the hell you endured .
Thank you for posting this! I'm a veteran of Vietnam and still have nightmares. May God Bless all of our veterans those then and Now!!!
Woww Keith....do you also have nice words for the families of the 4 million Vietnamese people that were murdered and the millions that were seriously wounded by Americain soldiers??
Or did you forget about that?
One of the Vietnam vets said : "who cares".
What do you say?
My Dad was a Vietnam Vet and I say God Bless You all and Thank you for fighting a war that no one gave you thanks for fighting. I do. We all feel different after finishing a job than we do when starting it, but you guys had no choice. I thank you for coming back alive, that was my 34-36 year old Dad's biggest regret, those of you he could not bring back home. Army, Infantry, Reconnaissance. Ist Cav, Ft. Hood, 1966, '68. SSGT James D. Headley.
Always breaks my heart to listen to Vietnam Vets. Fought a war that was a mess and came home to be treated like dirt. I always say welcome home to a Vietnam Vet because the never heard that when they should have. 🙏🏽
THANK YOU, I NEEDED THAT!!!! Howard L. M.😏
My wife is South Vietnamese, her mother, father, and their siblings fought in the war - and suffered terribly when they were abandoned to the Viet Cong. Yet as a child of "traitors" she is so forgiving and loving a person to those (on both sides) responsible for her family's sufferings.........just goes to show that time does heal - albeit slowly.
May all affected by that war find peace.
Unknown to me for 47 years.. I fathered a daughter during my year there. She and I went back to her hometown north of HCMC (Saigon) in 2019. I met so many people, her cousins, friends, etc. I felt sure some probably were VC during the war but had no proof. But I was amazed at how all had changed so drastically.. and how friendly everyone was to me. I was treated like a celebrity. I felt very safe and relaxed and it was fun being there again after so many years. Yes time does heal.
Watch the Winter Soldier documentary, see why they were considered traitors, but the treatment was usually not to harsh compared to the other side, witch isn't saying much.
So glad she made it out to freedom.
..My father knew a good number of VietNam veterans, so when growing up I got to hear a good many stories from those that had survived. These men & women will always have my respect!
These men..and so on, went to a far away small country and murdered 4 million people in 3 countries that did not had threaten nor attaqued the US.
What is there to be proud of??
Please tell me.
The US did not even declare the war to Vietnam, nor to Laos, and Cambodia.
Every person that died because of these illegal wars is according to national and international laws murdered.
I was born in late 1965 so I don't remember much about the Vietnam War but it affected my family. My cousin was killed there in 1970, my stepfather died from Agent Orange in 1999 and my brother-in-law is still haunted by the war fifty years later. I served in the Air Force towards the end of the Cold War and was in Desert Storm in 1991 and have a special place in my heart for Vietnam veterans. They were treated like garbage when they came home unlike these younger veterans who were in Iraq and Afghanistan and are given tons of respect. It just doesn't seem fair. God bless all Americans who defend our country and try to liberate other countries from evil dictators and regimes.
“Liberate other countries” by terrorizing the homeland of others? What about the countless lives of the innocent civilians who wanted no part of any war whatsoever but had been dragged into the chaos due to American political agenda and ideology? From Korea, Vietnam to the Middle East…How is it liberation when your government is the one deciding to invade other countries and causing catastrophic destruction to their civilians? Hmmmm… How does one bend the truth like that? Really?
The US is the worlds biggest evil regime
I agree with you
There is things called books to gather knowledge.
Wauww...........those nice words for the veterans.
They should not be there in the first place.
But you all were brainwashed by your criminal politicians.......presidents, Kissenger, McNamara and many other high ranked politicians.
The US army was not there to help the Vietnamese people, or to protect the US.. How in heavens name could these US soldiers back this war and be proud of all veterans??
They, Americain soldiers, have murdered 4 million people, they have been raping women on a huge scale, they have been killing babies, burning down many many villages with napalm, they been torturing people, mutilated bodies. There is not one warcrime that they did not commit.
So Joseph, what do you have to say to the Vietnamese people and the people of Laos and Cambodia?
Those countries did not threaten nor attaque the US.
Are you proud about your country?
God bless all of those who were in Vietnam or any war. I'm glad this came up on my channel as a reminder of things I take for granted every day that our soldiers have paid the ultimate price for. Thank you to all our military men and women for your bravery and sacrifice.
What about many of the soldiers that indiscriminately wiped out innocent civilian lives? Just because it's a war that makes it okay to praise murder?
@@ChristopherGray00 You make it sound so simple when you say " Just because. " War is not simple its not surgical...What would you do ?
@@eddielee5238 probably do the honorable thing and not go in the first place.
Nobody in your lifetime died for your freedoms. Not a single US soldier has died defending your rights and liberties in that time. Not unless you were born during or before WW2.
@@formalbug5716 then they died for my grandparents freedom for which iam more grateful for.
I enlisted during the Gulf War to show support to my uncle's who enlisted during the Vietnam War. Our Vietnam vets are our unsung heros...God bless everyone of them
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I missed going to Vietnam by 12 to 18 months, I graduated in 1975 just one month after the fall of Saigon. That summer I ended up working with several of the boat people at Radig Vault Co. where I had worked through out high school. My boss Pete Goria was a catholic and sponsored several families. I got the opportunity to go to their homes, which were apartments provided by the church. I met and ate with their families. They were hard working and a grateful people. They had no love for the Communist. I felt sorry for them. I felt we betrayed them.
I was very aware of the war. I had grown up during the war and watched it on TV every night. I read up on the history of the people of Indochina. There people I knew that were 5 to 10 years older than me who had been to Vietnam. Some did not return. Also I had two cousins who served in theater, one in the Navy and the other in the US Army. Both were there during the Tet 68 Offensive. The cousin in the Army was surprised when he came back after his tour to find out that Walter Cronkite had said the US and South Vietnamese had been defeated during Tet. Both cousin thought Walter Cronkite's opinion was wrong. They also thought that the US should have crossed into Cambodia and Laos and put several divisions at the head of the Ho Chin Minh trail and blocked it off as well as the DMZ. They thought that we should have never stopped or even paused the bombing of the North until they gave up the fight and let the Republic of Vietnam be free.
It was not the men in these videos that lost the war. It was the media, politician, academia, the Left, and the American people that lost the war. The war was to costly. It interfered with their lives. And it certainly something that needed to be stopped, if their sons and daughters might have to go. Nothing should be allowed to interrupt the college and business careers of the upper middle class, Buffy and Jody can't go.
Finally I will tell you a true story. It was my "Vietnam War Story". Now I have talked to many vets. I have also over the years talked to many of the Hmong, Montagnards, Laotians, Cambodians and South Vietnamese who fled the Communist. And it may be true that their perspective may be skewed, but no more than the media, academia, and the Left.
The story goes like this, a year or so after I got out of the Navy say about 1980. I started stopping by a Chinese restaurant in my home town that had recently opened up. I would usually stop by on the way home from work on Friday and treat myself to dinner. The couple that owned the restaurant was at the most 5 years older than me. They both spoke very well. The woman was call Maria. That was not her real name, that was her American pseudonym, because her real name for an American was to hard to say or at least Americans like me.
Anyway one Friday I came in at 4:30pm, by had just opened up and like many other times when it was slow either husband or wife would drop by my table and talk until business picked up. Well on this Friday I asked her for her story. You know where her and her husband was from, how they met, their family, etc. Come to find out she met her husband in Taiwan and had married there. So I asked if she had grown up in Taiwan too. She said no, she said she was an ethnic Chinese, but she had been born and raise in Cambodia. She along some family members had endured the Khmer Rouge and the Killing Fields, but they had escaped. While other family members had been killed by the Khmer Rouge. She went on and it was pretty bad what she had went through.
Then I asked her about what see thought about the US involvement in SE Asia. Now I imagine she was anti-Communist and would have sided with the US. And she was and did.
She looked at me very seriously, the normal happy smile disappeared. She asked me, do you really want to know my opinion. I told yes of course, your opinion was more important than mine in this case due to the fact that she was from the region and the war and Communist had impacted her life so much.
She said, "My opinion is that America came, killed a lot of people, destroyed a lot of things, spent a lot of money, sacrificed a lot of their sons, betrayed a lot of people and you failed!"
Needless to say I was stunned. I said but look at our sacrifices in blood and treasure, 10 years of political turmoil inside the US. 58,000 Americans dead, over a million Vietnamese North and South dead. I said how many deaths and how much treasure would have been enough.
Her reply was, "The numbers do not matter, you could have killed 10 times as many people or even 100 times as many people. It would not matter. Success is all that matters! Your failure cost more lives than the war and brought more destruction. Your failure to do what was necessary, betrayed all the people of SE Asia to the rule of the NVA, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao for decades to come." She said "Americans could have been like the Europeans and not gotten involved." I replied, "So your saying Americans should not get involved." Then she smiled and her face softened. She said, "No, America has to be involved, it is the worlds only hope. America just can't fail!"
Needless to say, after that, her and I had many conversations and I learned a different point of view. It has been over 40 years since Maria and I had that conversation, but I think about it every time I watch the news and politics in this country.
At the time, I had the naïve idea about the war and the world. The idea is that America did her best, made the sacrifice, and that is all the world could ask.
Sometime after the conversation with Maria, I was watching one of the Star Wars movies. There is Yoda and Luke on the swamp planet and Luke fails to lift the X wing fighter. Yoda say "DO OR DO NOT THERE IS NO TRY!'
It has been a long time since I had that conversation with Maria. The restaurant is closed. Her and her husband have another business somewhere else. I lost contact with them 5 years after the conversation.
Over the 40 years after the conversation, I look at the history since Vietnam. The US has been involved in conflicts many times and though militarily, we always seem to prevail. Politically the end results always seem disappointing.
Don't know what we can do as a nation to straighten out our political situation. It seems to always throw away hard won victories by bungling the politics.
Maybe we just need to shoot the media, the academics, the Left, and the political class.
She has a brain but lack ability of logic thinking , if the communists hadn't succeed in seizing the South the Khmer Rouge would have had no chance to take over power in Cambodia.
She didn't figure out the way things took place in series. China Dream of hememony is the last segment of this series, both innocent people of Vietnam and Cambodia were sky goats sacrified for China's ultimate ambition. Got it ?
@@thikimhanguyen6425 I don't think what you have said contradicts what I said. Without the fall of Saigon and NVA success. the Pathet Lao and the Khmer Rouge would have no chance of success and is only an irritant to the political leaders of Lao and Cambodia. The Soviets and CCP were the sponsors for all Communist movement in SE Asia. Only after the Americans left do the different Communist movement split and fracture between the Soviets and CCP.
North and South Vietnam were the major powers in SE Asia. Laos and Cambodia were subordinate compared to the two Vietnams.
Un conseille d'amis .... quitter l'Ukraine 😉🇫🇷
It’s sad how people treated these man when they came back home. The civilians should of gotten mad at the president and the generals. The young men didn’t have a choice. This war and the war in Afghanistan is why I have so much respect for people in the military. People don’t realize how lucky they are to have the freedoms they have now.
Not disrespecting anyone who lost their lives, but how does fighting in Vietnam and Afghanistan protect Americans??? And keep Americans free??
Agreed. The vet saying that they "created" the Vietcong is like how America "created" al-qaeda because of the country's actions in the Middle East. America's "freedoms" were never in jeopardy by Vietnam or the Middle East. The country created its own enemies by being too imperialistic in those areas.
AgieSebie that’s what the president and others thought. They thought communism would spread through Vietnam and then from there other countries near by
@@AgieSebie The '60s were an entirely different decade, indeed the polar opposite of the 2010's. It was hot on the heels of communist North Korea's surprise invasion of South Korea that literally pushed all of South Korea so far south that they were almost pushed off the peninsula and into the sea before we could engage. Then that turned into the down and dirty Korean War (aka the "Forgotten War").
The Cold War was at it's height, with very regular acts of brinksmanship by the USSR on the high seas, regularly cutting off and sometimes even bumping their ships into ours. My civilian engineer father was the Deputy Director of the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command, Bureau of Weapons which basically designed all the warships including their guns, missiles, and integrated radar systems, so we kind of were more privy to what was going on. Do you remember the Cuban nuclear missile blockade that almost devolved into a shooting war in October 1962? Then on live and in color TV in November 1963 you could watch your President get his head blown apart, Just like 9/11, which was kid stuff compared to having your President assassinated so violently, everything came to a stop including removing us from and closing down schools (a memory I'll never forget) while we wondered, as on 9/11, if it was done by the USSR or some communist proxy country as a prelude to war.The sixties, if you were alive to experience them, were incredibly tense and intense. The '60s slowly ratcheted up in involvement and battle intensity, and MLK Jr. and RFK were assassinated.
We entered into the war with noble intentions, answering the call of an ally and showing the USSR that we would not only not tolerate the communist expansion into the western hemisphere (ie. Cuba) but anywhere in the world where people like the South Koreans didn't want it. This was chess on a global political scale between countres (ie. the U.S
and U.S.S.R.) armed to the teeth with thousands of nuclear weapons. Hell, the U.S. had nuclear armed bombs, missiles, field artillery shells, and even grenades (which were highly impractical for obvious reasons). We also had a few broken arrow incidents (the Arctic, off Georgia, and off Spain, an ally of ours). President Johnson inherited a clusterf**k from JFK and had so much of the second guessing, lack of the South Vietnamese army's inability to fight for their own country, the countrculture's violent demonstrations which sometimes turned very bloody (ie. Kent State and lesser encounters) that he announced to the nation that he was in no way, shape or form going to run for a second term. Our involvement in Vietnam was a mess, and yes i had skin in the game. My first cousin was on the graveyard squad, going into fields of battle afterwards on a Huey to pick up our dead solidiers. He came home with a real good dose of PTSD, at a time when they didn't know what it was let alone how to treat it.
Yes, hindsight offers us the benefit of 20/20 vision. Vietnam was a terrible mess for everyone involved however it did have beneficial aspects. It demonstrated to the USSR that we'd commit to getting ourselves militarily bloodied and stay for more. There was determination behind our words. While it may have been a tactical loss Vietnam was a strategic win in that it demonstrated to the USSR and other not so friendly countries that we were a force to contend with. The iron curtain didn't deteriorate merely beginning with the fall of the Berlin wall just because those Iron Curtain citizens wanted the lives and standard of living of the U.S. citizens, beamed in via TV. The USSR had to spend money they didn't have trying to keep up with our military R & D, and actual deployment of advanced weaponry. The USSR unraveled because they bankrupted themselves trying to keep up with us and still couldn't. When you pull one long string it can have profound results down the road.
I am very sorry for the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who suffered so much in the war. I came very close to having to go through the birthday date lottery for being drafted and my cousin suffered dearly. However, the '60s were a time of change, the equivalent of two decades crammed into one compared to today. No ome knew how things would turn out going in and the great social change was a necessity. I see alot of Vietnam in the goings on in Afghanistan, and we should extricate ourselves ASAP. My own ex-wife was deployed to a MASH unit during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Nonetheless, there is no way someone who didn't live through the sixties can fully understand the decade or put it in the proper perspective of our days today. Understand however, I always thank the enlisted for their service and feel for them.
@@danielfronc4304 ideology is no reason to go to war and kill millions. There were no good intentions from the very beginning. I'm 64 and glad I was too young. At 14 years old in 1970 there was no hindsight for me I knew that war was wrong immoral and uncivilized sorry you didn't.
Rest In Peace to everyone that passed away in the war.
my grandpa was going to have to go but he got to stay since my grandma was pregnant with my dad and uncle. so there was a chance that i may not be here right now lol.
@Luigi Raimondo Pomo lmao much respect and greetings from the US
In nam i killed anyone who ran from the army
not everyone who lost their life in viet nam, DIED THERE....
@@johncitizen3927 deep
My family is made up of vets and my Dad was in Vietnam (1970-1972) as a USMC combat engineer. His best friend (my mother's brother) also served (68-69) in the Air Force in Vietnam. Nearly all of my Dad's friends are Vietnam combat vets and I've met veterans from WW2 up to Iraq. So I've heard a laundry list of things that would chill your blood.
They they should be in prison for war crimes. 🙄🙄🙄
@@revolutionaryleader9615
You should’ve wound up on a piece of toilet paper buddy.
Yeah that's not honderable. They should have been imprisoned for their crimes.
@@revolutionaryleader9615 - all wars are initiated by politicians.
@@revolutionaryleader9615 you two needed a good helicopter ride to make you sound more reasonable, pigs.
After going thru something like that you’re supposed to come home and act normal? Whatever that is...
First of all to the Narrator of this video. This video don't even start to tell the real story of the Vietnam Veteran.
Not every veteran was in a life or death conflict. As well as not all had a cushion job. And lets not forget the Medics, Doctors, and Nurses that save a lot of lifes. And my favorite was the helicopter pilots that saved our ass's many of times. We all had a job to do and we did it to the best of our ability.
I am so thankful that I wasn't with the first guy in this video. WHY? Because he was a fucking idiot and was damn lucky he came home at all. We had those type that didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground. Otherwise he was not properly trained for what he was about to see.
The second man was just doing what the ROCK ARMY (Korea Army) had been doing as far as the ears go. The men that did these type of things needed to be held responsible for their actions.
I was there in 1967-68 and it was no damn picnic no matter where you were. I remember the TET OFFENSIVE (Vietnamese New Year) in 68. Believe me there is no way you can remember how many enemy you killed. Because they were everywhere you looked. They come and kept on coming for hours. Did I ever kill any? Yes but when you are in a situation to where it's either you or him you don't hesitate to pull the trigger. Because if you do, you will die on the spot either by gun or bayonet from the enemy. And to this day I couldn't begin to say as the other guy did how many I killed. Because as far as I was concerned they were nothing but targets with no human value.
I am sorry for such a long comment but I feel that it had to be said because of the type of content.
Dave Thank you for your service!
@@sosco22 You are welcome... Have a great day..
I'm a Navy vet of the Vietnam War. I was on a DD. I always felt a little guilty that my older brother was a Marine who did 3 separate tours in Vietnam. in country. I stayed in the military after getting out of the Navy, joining the Army National Guard. I was a medic, and over 30 years later, my unit was deployed to Iraq. At 54, I was going into a combat zone, and it seemed surreal. I told my brother how I had felt that I got off easy during Vietnam and he said "You didn't miss anything that you didn't need to miss. I wouldn't do it again, and I wouldn't want to be in your shoes right now. " When I got over there, I learned what he meant. I saw more death, misery, gruesomeness and sadness as a medic treating casualties than I had ever seen in many years working in a major trauma center in my civilian job over here. I had a 7 year old child, caught in a crossfire die in my arms. I will never forget the screams, the pain. War is always ugly and sad.
I know this video laid some emotions raw for you. It did for me, too. As a brother vet, I salute you for your service. You are right, we had a job to do, and we did the best we could.
I appreciate this account. For real. I find the narration does it an injustice by trying to make it different from any other kind of war. War never changes. The people, the weapons, the technology sure, but war is war. Thank you sir for you account.
@@michaellawson6298 Go Navy, Fly Navy🇺🇸
I have a Vietnamese friend who’s father served in the NVA during this war. He was conscripted, didn’t want any part of it and speaks little of the horrors he experienced as a young man. His and his comrades story is as sad as that of the American servicemen.
Would love to hear that story
The Vietnamese were defending their homeland.
@@ihs51 no, half of the country wanted one thing and the other half wanted another. If you think the south wanted the Americans gone then you haven't read much on the war. People were clinging to our helicopters as they left so they weren't stuck when the north took over
@@chillychese
Actually, the Vietnamese population were never asked.
After the French were kicked out, Vietnam was divided just as Korea was after WWII. However, a promise was made that the Vietnamese population were to have an election by 1959 to decide for themselves. This promise was of course not kept and guess which country did not keep its promise. USA!
USA was afraid that a majority would vote for a communist government and that was basically what slowly started the conflict since the North started actions in South Vietnam.
USA never had a strategy for Vietnam. USA believed that if they killed sufficient numbers of Vietnamese, the North would agree to a divided Vietnam. USA basically learned nothing from WWII.
Vietnam never attacked USA. In the eyes of the North Vietnamese, USA was the invader just as the Russians had previously viewed the Nazis as invaders. Many more than 3 million Russians were killed during WWII and they kept on fighting, bleeding out the Wehrmacht. The same strategy was used on the Americans in Vietnam. To North Vietnam, it did not matter how many Vietnamese died. Their goal was to ensure as many Americans were killed and wounded because they knew that the support from home would eventually change.
At the end of the day, the regime USA supported in South Vietnam was a dictatorship. It had nothing to do with democracy. USA simply chose to fight an unjust war.
It's simply hilarious that Americans only talk about their so-called heroes from Vietnam and always forget the millions of Vietnamese that were killed in the process because USA got involved in a conflict they should never have gotten involved in.
@@TheChiefEng Is that why over 300,000 South Vietnamese soldiers were sent to re-education camps and were tortured and forced to work in labor camps?
I was a grunt in Vietnam 1971. It was an intense year for me.
You know 👍🇺🇸 Thanks.
I would argue these scenes are more graphic... intense than movies.. by far. After watching many documentaries recently about WWII and now this.. no movie will ever compare to the horror of what these guys went through.
Navy Veteran here,1971-77... I didn’t go to Canada
Stood you in good stead pal x
Thank you sir for my freedom.❤️
@@daviddou1408 My great grandpa was killed by agent orange, he was in the 101st airborne and was a sharpshooter. He survived getting shot (I still have his bloodied uniform) only to come home and form a cancer from the chemicals and die. (Edit: I'm sure he would have had good stories to tell aswell lol)
Good thing you weren’t a combat infantryman!
@@daviddou1408 That is total bullshit. Agent Orange was manufactured exclusively in the US by Monsanto and Dow Chemical, as well as a few other smaller companies. Do your research before spouting harmful nonsense like this.
I love how you do these videos, close UPS, lots of information and extra footage. Thanks for Sharing, some of this I have never seen before.
A war I didn’t have to experience because I had the fortune to be Canadian living 75 miles north of the border. As a 71 year old male, I look at the Vietnam War, that caused terrible psychological damage of my American brothers, as a hell on earth. I was spared from this horrifying experience and feel grateful that Canada thought it better not to participate.
Top respect to the soldiers. Rest in Peace.
History has proven LBJ even until work got too much for him wanted control down to weapons & supplies used daily in Vietnam so he could control kick backs to his bank account. Look it up yourself. People want knock down statues and signs in USA now. They should start with that low life 1st. I find very hard find anything nice say or he did good for his country.
Also a bunch of innocent civillians such as men woman and children, whats worse
@@AmphetaminisedGavid them too!
@@Houndiniplus he helped get JFK assassinated he is a traitor
@moonbeam most the politicians who were in charge at the time are long dead and gone my man 😅
I have deep respect to all Veterans, for their sacrifice, courage, service and the Haunting memories they can never unsee. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 my Father served in WWII & Korea along with 6 of his 8 brothers serving as well. 1 Gold Star amongst them and a variety of metals. Then my youngest Son decline football scholarships to enlist and service in Iraq. The boy that went was not the same man that returned..... 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
They never are. And he was no longer a boy.
Its takes years to recover. What bother me was not trusting the american ppl.
@Blu Crystl please stay clear of the four edges of this flat planet. We wouldn't want you to fall off.
I went to the "WALL" when it was first dedicated. I and another vet watching... He turned and said, "You Know... the names....I think those are the lucky ones"...Years later, I realize what he meant......All the shit we had to take...An had to deal with, most of us overcame......Others.....not so much...GOD Bless you all, an welcome home.....
I and my wife thank all American veterans for their bravery and courage to impose American will and humanity across the world. You have our undying admiration and support.
'Only the dead have seen the end of war'''...Plato....'War is the father of all things'..Heraclitus......retired US Army......100% disabled....
Salute
I left Vietnam in 1969 but Vietnam has never left me especially with the respect we didn't get from Americans. 100;% disabled American Vet.
Thank you to all Veterans in the Viet nam war. I was 10 living on a military base in Frankfurt Germany but I learned alot about the war on the 7 pm news and talking to GIs. And not for one minute did it seem to me that there would be people cheering for Americans with flowers and wine .Any one who I ever talked to that was over there said it was insane and awful. At 13 my father was stationed in Australia as an Americancan diplomat. I had the honor of hanging out with about 20 American GIs one day who were on R n R in Sydney from Vietnam. Once again not one of these guys had the misconseption that they were liberators.They said kid do your best to stay out of vietnam its hell. None of them to my knowkedge really knew why tbey were there. Their number came up and they went.
Australian here.
My dad (and plenty of his mates) went to Vietnam. He wasn't happy about it, but, he was proud that he served his country.
Whilst I respect your "anti-war" sentiments, if you are going to have "voice overs," describing what went on, how about getting a veteran's perspective also? They'll probably wholeheartedly agree with you. I know my Dad would. He TOTALLY despised the idea of war. Begged him to tell me stories as a kid-teen..."you don't need to know about that bullshit..." Then as I got older (and had my own "life experiences" - nothing compared to him at age 22-25) he would tell me "the gory crap...the bullshit and total nonsense Senior leaders we had back then, Officers who wouldn't know a tree trunk was up their arse until they started combing splinters outta their parted hair styles..." stories of talking to your mate (best man at your wedding) in the morning and seeing is brains come spraying out 5 hrs later on an op...." etc
I could probably write a book myself on what my Dad told me, but, there's a BIG shadow of "stolen valour" (well, in my dumb arse mind) about writing another mans story.
You're obviously putting effort into doing documentaries, which are rather good!
Please consider getting the 1st hand point of view from those who were actually there.
Australian 'THERE'... Outside of warmongers and politicians with agendas (and military brass too), do you think most people want "war"?? Pretty sure that the Ukrainians would rather NOT pick up body parts of kids, civilians, and all they once lived in semi-peace = lands of theirs. WAR is fucking HELL... Personally, while I feel sorry that you were forced by your father to try to understand and loath war (as you should), you have NO Right to speak on stories passed to you 2nd and third hand, and with agendas and personal regrets (your father, etc)... "My daddy told me"... FYI, there is NO stolen valor on the battlefield... There are just men, and cowards... Stolen valor comes after the fight is over.. Lastly, and I have totally left a lot out of here you SI$$IE... "Please consider getting the 1st hand point of view from those who were actually there..."?? They have a number of somewhat good "war movies" that could cover you.. Like you would know what it is like to be shot or brains, balls, guts and intestines splattered.. I have a lot of dead friends.. None of which, are a coward like you... P.S. Sorry, if my thoughts upset you..
It's interesting you say that but thing is, even those veterans represent a small picture of what truly happened and most of the time, they would glorify and hide what they truly did and also are biased because they suffered stress and harbour hatred towards the enemy. That's why it's always better to do research and get perspective of an unbiased person.
You can look up the video on youtube "Vietnam War #3 (Rape & Murder). They also mention about hte SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) towards civilians. It was that of an often occurance. Not all soldiers did that but many of them did and they have the media hiding those bs.
My dad was a PLA soldier and from the stories he told us this is like heaven compared to what PLA soldiers had to go through...
For many of this soldiers the war did’t stop in the USA. It just started.
One reason I joined the Army was because of all those who served in Vietnam. I was obsessed with that war as a teenager. I got a MAC-V patch from an old SF CSM I knew who re-upped 4 times to fight there. Never talked about it, but when I mentioned MAC-V, he looked at me like I should have never known that acronym. "MAC-V?", he said and looked long and hard in silence. "I'll see what I can do", he said. A few weeks later he called me to his office and opened an envelope with the color patch inside. He got it from his brother who was an E8 and also served in Vietnam. He had taken the patch off his old BDUs. Tragically during the time the patch got to me his brother was killed in a car accident. "When it's time to go, it's time to go", was the answer of the SF guy. Hard as nails, as many Vets were. Thank you for your service and RIP. POW-MIA💪🙏🇺🇸
God bless all who served in nam. J.Ortega USN Retired
from lancashire england too
My grandfather served for 4 years straight without coming home in WW2, He was an airplane mechanic stationed in the CBI (China Burma India)
He repaired the planes flying the Hump over China, He was proud of his time and I was proud of him, I can still hear his excitement when talking about his trips to Calcutta!
Melkor Morgoth, I'm kind of down today and reading this was nice, Thank you.
Unfotunately the soldiers mental sanity is always [sacrificed] in the name of 'greater good'
Because war is not a natural activity for humans.
As a Veteran, I appreciate you sharing your message, your understanding, and your gratitude. It’s a dark journey that we sometimes walk alone.❤️
@Gregg your lost, next
I love how this video is not overly dramatic.
72 Marines died for taking a hill with no strategic importance? The officers and the generals who decided this should have been court martialed....what a waste of life...
My great respect for all soldiers veterans and victims. Thanks for your service ! And God bless all
My father spent 8 yrs.( 62-71)( not consecutively) in Vietnam.He recieved a bronze star an silver star...He never spoke, (never) of his time there.I can't imagine the horrors for both sides.I still to this day question, what the great reason was for that war.That so many lost their lives an so many who experienced it had their lives forever changed. RIP Lt.Col.J.J. Treadwell 3rd.
No reason...
A good many of those who served in Vietnam died there. Not just those whose names are honoured on the wall, but many of those who also returned.
They arrived in Vietnam with a youthful, naive dream of a future full of hope, ambition and enthusiasm. Depending on your brief while in-country', that was all extinguished in a very short time and your sole focus became one of survival.
The young kid who left was not the old man who returned, hence the analogy to death. I have heard some vets say that actually the lucky ones were those who never survived because their demise would have saved them a lot of suffering and disappointment and spared the pain they have caused loved ones since.
I suspect many living on the streets of the large affluent cities share similar sentiments. Others have been lucky enough to find a parachute, usually in the form of a strong , understanding and loving wife.
words of truth ty
I was in Vietnam 70-71 and it was not a fun place, combat engineer. Coming home hurt...no respect for the Vietnam vet broke my heart.
For what it's worth, I appreciate you and your service. Your bravery did not and still doesn't go unnoticed. Never met you, but thank you for protecting me and my family. God bless you sir
Learned a lot in 71 to 72 .13 months you can never get away from it. Some times you think wow .Then you live with the friends you have left. There are no winners only servers
We were married 1969. He was drafted 6 mos later. I hated Nixon. When he came home 2 yrs later..full uniform..patches..medals when back on American soil. Was called baby killer stuff thrown at them he couldn’t get uniform off quick enough. He was a paratroop and sgt. he died 10 yrs ago. We were married 43 yrs. I miss him.
Why would you ever expect to be respected after participating in a war for profit?
GOD BLESS YOU HONEY!! YOU SHELL SEE HIM AGAIN SOON, " JESUS " WILL LEAD YOU TO HIM!!!! 😌@@jackiemac9842
Damn my dad told me some crazy shit didn't believe him up until I was deployed and saw the real colors of war rip dad and always will remember you, great video as always!!!!!
Welcome to the club! from a Warrant Officer, Canadian Airborne...
RIP brother.
My dad was in Vietnam from 1969-1971 in army as a door gunner. He never spoke about it, when I enlisted in the MARINE CORPS
He sinply said, when i get back stateside we will get a beer and talk. Now i understand why he never spoke about it.
@@Irish381 My dad fought his way through the jungles in Borneo and Sumatra, liberated POW camps and refused to tell me anything.
Until you experience WAR as an infantryman, face to face you will never know the horror nor the hatred that accompanies such soldier.
I was a bit young for Vietnam. But, like a million other young men, I received that letter from Selective Service to register for the draft. Its message was clear and simple: ' we need your body for cannon fodder. You are expendable. You have no choice.' At that time, the feminists were marching the streets demanding My Body, My Choice. Then they spat on young men returning from the war.
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Theese guys were drafted young with 60s,70s weaponry and tech. They were really tested over there. God bless the ones who made it back and give peace to ones who didnt.
It was tough all around for Vietnam vets returning home. I served 3.5 years in infantry as 11b10. I was born in 58 and was only 15 in 74 when war ended. I enlisted in 76 and looked old for my age. I had to show girls my ID to prove I did not serve in Vietnam or they would not go out with me. They all thought I was a Vietnam vet and I had to show my ID to prove I was too young. Vets return from combat had it bad and we're treated poorly In 2004 I went to Iraq and spent 7 years working in combat zones and 1 year in Afghanistan as a contractor working for military repairing A/C units and installing them and helped rewire bases in Afghanistan. Saw the bodies blown up and missing limbs. But Vietnam was often fought in the jungle and the guys had to suffer so much only to come home after time served and treated so badly. War s*cks. Nothing positive becomes from it. Death, broken bodies and souls and a life time of nightmares.
Thanks for sharing!!
As a Vet myself, in the first firefight ALL I noticed from the sounds of combat were there were NO M-79 sounds, they had either lost their Grenadier or they were already out of 40mm ammo....
Who is “they”?
@@fromontario6954 The Americans, they were supposed to have M-79 Grenadiers...
@@TheSpritz0 around what time are you talking about? I thought they phased out the m79 pretty quick for the m203, Im not sure though it’s just an assumption.
@@bananafarmer4204 M203 was not introduced until 1969, and of course it took months to introduce to all units...
@@bananafarmer4204 Some US Navy SEALs and Army Special Forces in Iraq have been seen using the M79 in recent years, due to its greater accuracy and range compared to the M203 (350m effective versus 150 m effective on the M203).
Why don't you show videos of the British troops evacuated from Dunkirk who cussed the RAF for not showing up and use it as a way to imply the RAF was inept?
And Vietnam wasn't "unified" in 1975, North Vietnam invaded a sovereign nation just the same as if North Korea invaded South Korea tomorrow, that's why US troops were there, to keep a country run by communist thugs who broke every treaty they signed from invading the South, like the treaty they signed when North and South Vietnam were formed that the North signed saying they'd never invade the South.
When North Vietnam invaded the South after US troops left in 75 they went from village to village on the way rounding up school teachers, priests and town officials and executed them, tens of thousands of them, then after they took the country over they rounded up over 300,000 people and sent them off to "re-education" camps many of whom were never seen or heard from by their families again, and between the invasion in 1975 and 1979 2.5 million people fled the country because of the communist takeover.
That's why US troops were in Vietnam in the first place, to keep that from happening, just like why they were in Europe during the cold war, to keep the Soviets from invading the countries in Western Europe, like England.
Thank you.
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This guy is just another apologist for the socialist marxist movement
Thank a Vietnam vet. Most didn't get welcomed back when they returned.
The only ppl welcoming me home was the flight stewardess and later a cab driver.
@@petersclafani4370 we remember and appreciate you
@@petersclafani4370 THATS MESSED UP MAN
They didn't get welcome back in Australia either mate. Left wing hippy ardeholes used to shower them in animals blood and call them baby murderers. Pretty horrid considering many were conscripts and forced to go. Australia had never had conscripts before and hopefully never will again. Some of my closest friends grew up living under communism. I'd fight to stop it . It's a brutal regime that persecutes all but the very top layer of useless beuracrats.
@@petersclafani4370 Good I don't respect you for fighting in Vietnam.
Try telling one of these guys you’re gonna kneel during an nfl game...
Many veterans protested the war by throwing back their medals. They would totally kneel in protest.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Against_the_War
I was in Vietnam in 1965/66 as a civilian and it took me less than six weeks to fully realize that the American war against the Vietnamese was going to end in failure. After all, Americans, as a general rule, are not deep thinkers and therefore they failed to understand that they could not possibly win a war of attrition, where the goal was to wear down the enemy through continuous engagement and high casualties.
The soldiers in Vietnam saw more days in conflict than any other war. Over the course of a year the average soldier saw 240 days with conflict.
Hate your name but this is a great point.
My tour was in south Vietnam , the delta...River assault division 13...7 men lived full time on a landing attack boat. Left over ww11 and retro fitted to fit a platoon of infantry and our crew..I was a twenty mm gunner..wounded three times ,11 direct rocket hits, one 59 day period we had 61 firefights, 58 lost 518 wounded, navy/army.
Living conditions sucked ,I went over 160 lbs..came back 119. Lbs, still have health problems!
theres a video of a news crew who were next to a tank, with a young soldier and he asked him a couple questions. It starts again with a large explosion and they explained it was the tank and that kid was killed instantly. It happened so many times, but for some reason that one haunts me he was just a kid and like that he is just gone. It happened thousands of times and is hard to think about. Ill always have incredible respect for those guys, they went through hell.
Love your Contents bro 💓✌️
Thank you for Your Service,Marines.
Respect to the heroic Vietnamese bravely defending their families and homeland from foreign enemy invaders. You held the line against all odds. Incredible fighting force. Patriotic Heroes. 🇻🇳
Especially the ones who tortured unarmed pilots to death. Right?
@@kingsmandean were there American planes armed with bombs and napalm wiping out villages including burning women and children from their homes?
@@billyrock8305 yea ,,,,including napalm ,!,, Terrible
@Adam Marshall No Americans involved? Okay
Google:
"Dak son massacre" , your heroic NVA/VC Vietnamese slaughtered whole Montagnard village killing the native Ppl , Kids, babys, elderly, women and Men with Handgrenades, Rifles;Bayonetts and Flamethrowers.
Some Montagnard tribes in central highlands living at the time like Stoneage folks hunting with Spears, Bow and arrows, poor folks sandwhiched between the to sides and dragged into a war that was not their "buisness", Vietnamese in South and North despised them as Savages, those tribes werent even Vietnamese they are of Polynesian origin.
On the Sergeant "shot twice in the leg"--- he was treated and returned to duty; he did not go home. And, it wasn't even the first time he'd been wounded. The news episode was wrong. The Sergeant wrote a book and specifically mentions his wounding and the false information around it.
Youre Correct. He was zquad point man. His buddies were f-up after he left and they got a new squadleader...They Didnt even mention his name man!
Such a dramatic contrast of the bloodshed of war and the calm & surreal voice of the
commentator's voice. Listening to him was almost a ASMR experience.
All 4 of my cousins, just a little older than I went. Three were from Louisiana. One took leave in Saigon and got on heroin. He got a dishonorable discharge.The other 2 from LA got back ok after 12 months but were changed men. My other cousin was a door gunner on a Huey. He and the pilot decided to switch positions on day. The pilot could not shoot and my cousin could not keep the cyclic in sync so he could not fly in a straight line. They switched back. My son-in-law who spent most of his time playing video games got sent to Iraq (medic) and found himself in Afghanistan finally working at a POW camp. It made a man out of him. My older brother talked me out of joining the Navy. Today, I still regret that decision. My dad fought in the battle of the Bulge WWII. The U.S. was a nation of brave me and still is but there are some who are hate this country. In WWII as men waited to land in Normandy facing certain death there are some young men that words hurt them. This sickens me.
Respect. I live in a country
far away from the great country,called America.
Those who scold American born brave soldiers, are ignorants.
Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
Very interesting video.
Second post, one thing that is very rarely mentioned about the Vietnam war, is how it started and why we went there. There is a "deleted" scene in Apocalypse Now that you can see in the Redux version where they go to a plantation. It's about 25-30mins long, but basically it's the owner of the plantation telling about how it all started. Simply, the U.S. went to Vietnam to, once again, bail out the French. They failed in WW1 and and WW2, and now they failed again in Vietnam, and we were sent in to help. They left us there and didn't help us.
100 percent TRUE! Jn
When Richard Nixon assumed the presidency in the spring of 1968, he and Henry Kissinger determined that the Vietnam War could not be won.
But he reasoned that the US could not merely withdraw its troops, that would be an embarrassment.
So they came up with the idea of staying in Vietnam, gradually turning it over to the South Vietnamese and then getting the troops out. The reason that South Vietnam might survive about four years with us being gone; it actually survived less than two years.
10s of thousands of young men died so that Richard Nixon and the US would not be embarrassed.
Several of my friends and I enlisted in the spring of 1969. Some were dead within a year.
Little did we know that we had joined the Army to fight in a war that our government had already determined was a lost cause.
Hamburger Hill was fought in order to bring the North Vietnamese Army to battle and to see how they matched up to the US forces. This was the first time in the war that the the NVA faced off against the US toe to toe. In a war of attrition, the ability to inflict disproportionate casualties, in this case 10 to 1, you have to bleed the enemy dry. 600+ bodies were found after the battle, that only accounts for the dead that were left in place, it does not account for the dead that were removed from the battle space nor does it take into account the vast numbers of wounded NVA. While not a victory in the traditional sense, the outcome of the battle dispensed with the NVA invincibility.
I believe you are thinking of the FIRST encounter the American Army had with the North Vietnamese at the very beginning of the War. Hamburger Hill was much later. After that battle the President ordered the military to end that strategy ("kill more of them then they kill of ours")
I Drang Valley was the first large battle. 1st Cav in late 66. Described in the book and movie - -we were soldiers once. Your right.
@@twinsisters1952 was in November of 1965....
It was an ego-trip by/for Col. Honeycutt - Westmoreland backed him, so it wasn't a big deal butchering his troops for some praise. He's lucky to not have been fragged.
My uncle was a flight medic pilot I think in 1969 and 70 maybe 71 because he graduated in 68. He volunteered though. Twice. Died of Parkinsons from Agent Orange in 2011. My dad was his twin brother.
These poor men fighting a rich mans war
time for revenge take out our bent politicians and democraps rinos and other whiners !
Exactly what it was just such a total waste!! Been an activist ever since!!
The Vietnamese Viet Cong we're no angels either. They were some of the most ruthless, heartless people towards POWs ever.
What would you do to your enemy then , cuddle them ?
@@iosifvissarionovichstalin3895 massage them
What goes around comes around. You rarely agree with it.
Every country was ruthless towards the people who killed there brothers
WTF. Why wouldn't they be
My dad had no regrets serving in Nam twice but was pissed we didn't see that it was a lost cause helping them after TET they didn't want the troops there anymore.
none of Vietnamese wanted American at their country. Stop talking about " help " here, that was invasion
1st. Cav.Div. Veteran. Served May-July9 1969 with the 1/12 Cav. Summer of ‘69 was a bad time to be there which was why I only lasted two months before getting shot.
Thanks for your service
Let's do a video on Communists and what they did to the Vietnamese people! Let's look at what the Communists did to the people in North Vietnam before they invaded the South. I'm an Australian Vietnam veteran and I can assure you we didn't operate like that which is portrayed in this video. I never saw an American act like this, either. And one fact above all - which I do agree with is that war is terrible. A war zone isn't a kindergarten - we never would have been there except the politicians couldn't get their shit together - on either side. And there is the real lesson of war - be careful who you allow into office … beware what ideologies and religions you allow to wheel and deal us into killing one another. Take more care, people, and we won't have wars.
*You have my unconditional respect.....*
The first interviewee had no clue what he was talking about. "the longer we were there the more VC there were". Rubbish! By early 1968 the VC had been defeated. That's why the North Vietnamese had to take over the fighting after Tet 1968 and massively reinforce the attempted takeover of the South Vietnamese, millions of which had escaped the horrors of the North when the country was portioned and escaped to the South. The South wasn't perfect but the NVA would kill anyone who didn't go along with the program, and it was, and is, a thousand times better than the Communist North. The US fought with one hand tied behind its back. Never again. I am a Vietnam Veteran of I Corp.
Correct on all points (a VN veteran, as well)
@B M The VC were North Vietnamese infiltrators...NOT locals. The recruited locals through terror and threats. And be that as it may, the American military WIPED out the VC during the Tet Offensive of 1968. American B-52's WIPED OUT the invading North Vietnamese Army in 1972. Those same B-52's would have ALSO wiped out the invading North Vietnamese Army of 1975...if the American Congress hadn't stabbed the South Vietnamese people in the back and with held those B-52's, contrary to Nixon's promise to the South when the peace treaty was signed in 1972.
@B M OF COURSE many North Vietnamese infiltrators were arrested and shipped off to internment camps! What ELSE could be done with them? The South Vietnamese farmers just wanted to be left alone. The Northern VC infiltrators wouldn't let them do that.
@B M Nonsense. You must be a North Vietnamese propaganda operative. I've TALKED to someone who was sent to one of those North Vietnamese death camps...and luckily escaped. As they said: "The Cambodians just killed people with shovels. The North Vietnamese were smart. They put people in those camps and just let them die from starvation and disease".
BADGUY 1 They were lots of Viet Cong from the South, lots of Vietnamese Nationalist joined the Viet Cong
I was a Marine L/Cpl in Vietnam from 65-66 in the Walking Dead [D/1/9]. Experienced a year of hell. Upon return to states in June 1966 the Marine Corps did absolutely nothing to "welcome" me, provided no "debriefing" and offered no support. AMAZING! [Retired Psychologist]
I remember watching that war on tv when I was a kid, that's one reason why I enlisted in the Corp in '74. I still remember a V.C. being shot in the head by a South Vietnamese general on tv.
Im not justifying that but "apparently" the guy who was executed helped organize a bombing attack that killed the generals son.
@LMSTactical Ohhhhh
@LMSTactical I was just a kid back then, I dont even remember what year it was when it happened. It could have been in '69 when I was 13, not really sure. Just remember a stream of blood spurtin out of the bullet wound.
the shooter, had a restaurant in nyc, later....
Seeing them execute that man without any trial let alone context. imagine watching that was a kid or teen. It would’ve fucked up anyone living then, guy who shot em ended up with a restaurant in NYC. Imagine how many people who saw that video ended up being served at this restaurant
I recall reading about an American doubting a Mountanyards body count. The Yard produces a bamboo tube and shakes out the contents. It's a big pile of ears. He tells the American, count them up and divide by two.
Rest in peace.god bless all the soldiers
Anytime I see these old film clips,I always look for my father.
god this is the saddest comment yet
My dad was a Dustoff pilot from 65 - 66. Never opened up about his time there until about 6 months before he died. I remember going to see Apocalypse Now with him and my sisters at a matinee during Thanksgiving holiday, 1979. When the movie ended and the lights came up, he sat there riveted to his chair, silent, holding onto the armrests like someone on a rollercoaster ride, staring at the screen as the end credits rolled - must've been 5-7 minutes. We were the last to leave the theater. When asked, he said everything was okay, but didn't speak much for the rest of the evening. Was tempted, but never got the chance to talk about that...
Thank you.
B Co 2/5 1st Cav 11B 1968. "War isn't hell. War is the Gate to Hell."
"When were you in Vietnam?"
Tonight.
Great video, thanks! Respect to all veterans.
As a veteran thank you for your support
I'm tired of "analysis" by people who weren't there and have no experience. Was Hamburger Hill pointless? It only happened because "they were there"? What if the Army ignored them, only to receive a devastating attack a month later after the enemy was reinforced? Would these same armchair generals be criticizing THAT decision?
Actually, after the US took that hill and then left, the VC did come back to it and occupy it once again.
@@bigbluegpr They were NVA. Not VC. And Hamburger Hill was part of the A Shau valley, a major supply area for the NVA in Northern South Vietnam.
@@kingsmandean I stand corrected, and wasn't arguing that it was a meaningless battle. Just pointing out that the enemy did return to the hill after the US left. Thanks!
Good point!
Clearly wasn't all that great of a decision being as they LOST THE WAR. They should never have been there in the first place. Killing people on their land when they didn't attack your country. A bullshit pointless political war which sent tens of thousands of Americans to their deaths and killed hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of civilians. It accomplished nothing and ended with the Americans literally being chased out of the country, the last few clinging onto a chopper as it barely got away in time. I've been to Vietnam. I've seen the bomb craters. I've seen the bullet holes. I've met the people that lived through it. Nothing the US did there was a "good decision".
I'm an old Marine grunt Rifleman...it was an age when reporting the news was honest...they showed how incompetent the strategies of this wars rules of engagements where handled by the Generals handlers..
these days Afghanistan isnt even reported on...why?...because they are told not to by their owners...big profit in war...where the whole thing is a scandal...as a vet...I salute all combat vets for their beliefs in fighting for freedom...however....wars have a agenda...for the Military industrial complex...and the profits of big business and the Bankers that profit from them
I only have the highest respect for our Vietnam Veterans! They had a job, and they damned well did it!
@@shaw9851 you all say that until we come knocking on your door... by the way im ex military and let's just say that over the next few weeks you will be seeing me face to face friend.
Respect to the US veterans who bravely fought from the Icelandic people!!!
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You sound short. Are you a short little guy?
What? Killing?
What I remember from my childhood were amputees everywhere on city sidewalks with cup in hand after WW II and Korea. Fewer men participated in Vietnam and those who did were rejected by their peers. A story told to me by a nurse at a veterans hospital about a young man who was to be married prior to his service in Vietnam. After his return and while still recovering from loss of multiple limbs his fiancée came to see him at the hospital soon after his return, took one look at his condition and walked out. The nurse told me it was the most emotional encounter of her and his lifetime, she broke down.
7 years of the childhood kid remember the toys and the place they go play etc , my different to all that I see and remember war dead body laying every where around me, to get from one side to other you have to walked on the dead body, imagine the body lay dead for days and the smell of it ?, every step you walking the guts pop out under your feet like a balloons, and when the bom drop? it's feels like someone kick or you get hit by a car in your chest feel like heavy weight press on etc , it's still haunting me till this day.
I thanks for all the soldiers laying their life to keep peace for us to have a better life.
I worked in a Vietnamese kitchen in Canada in 2002-2003 and the head cook said he fled from the war wanted no part of it as did many Vietnamese people. Unfortunately many could not get free.
Vietnam was a civil war and like a lot of civil wars it was dirty, nasty and extremely cruel.
You only have to look at the proportion of the populations killed in the US and English civil wars to see that.
Nige H The biggest contribution to the number of American civil casualties is the advancement in weapons technology was far superior to the tactics used. 10’s of thousands of men at a time ordered to their deaths. 600,000 total dead in a four year war is unsettling.
That’s soon to be here on American soil.
It wasn't a civil war - the north and south were divided (17th parallel) and autonomous countries as per the Geneva conference (1954 - France leaving Vietnam) - but the communists left troops behind to fight the south - basically it was a communist invasion to unify the country - as they proved in 1975, murdering 10's of thousands of non-communists. Stop revising history, stop the propaganda.
Love for all my VN vets... Prayers for all those who never made it home...
Charlie dont surf
I served with C-Troop, 1st of the 9th.............Great line..........Charlie Don't Surf......
SURF NICARAGUA!!
Good to see and hear the truth from the real people , I love hearing the actual person telling what actually happend. War is hell.
Why are you whispering my guy? Volume at max an I can't hear anything over the background sounds.
Bad audio mix
When they return into Sydney Harbour they weren't V- Day Hero's. You Can Disagree With A War & The Government.
But You Never Ever Disrespect The Soldier. ~ LEST WE FORGET ~
War is hell, but what was even more devastating was the reception these young boys, who became men over night, recieved upon returning home. Many were mentally forced to become "Vietnam Vets against the war " in order to be treated like heroes. Those who chose to defend their service were defined as "war pigs" and accused of raping and killing children. Hollywood and John Kerry (comparing our troop to Ghangis Khan) only added to this misconception. In reality, the majority of these American heroes acted with valor, dignity and valued human life. They saw atrocities committed against innocent civilians and yet were unable to distinguish between enemy or foe. Americans who went crazy and committed war crimes were the exception, not the rule. 12 months under combat, no weekends or days off and very little sleep. One would require tremendous faith in God, family and country in order to avoid going 10/7. They had no "home coming" parades or public receptions. Their buses were pelted with rotten eggs at Ft. Lewis, spat upon and called vile names. They were warned not to wear their uniforms in public.. So many of these young heroes, who were unable to cope with the home treatment, turned to drugs and were lost before their 25th birthday. This video starts by saying that the war ended when the North invaded and unified Vietnam. No the war ended when protesters kept the politicians at bay, forcing them to sign a meaningless peace treaty which was broken by the North. Mass executions followed and the people now enjoy living under Communism making $800 a year. Our Vets deserved better, but they will always have a taste of freedom, the protected will NEVER know. God bless them all and may God forever bless America.
I'd have to say, this is the best documentary I've watched on the Vietnam War. Very well put together with excellent commentary.
Such an unnecessary war. Too may innocent people lost their lives imo
All wars American's been involved with since WWII have been unnecessary.
the sky is blue imo
BonOrbitz True
@B M Sounds like someone wanted a war.
Listen to recently release Nixon tapes. A total nutcase!!!