Viet Nam Veterans (VNAM)

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We remember those who served in Vietnam

By Silvio Canto, Jr.

At a church Friday fish fry, I had the chance to chat with a couple of fellow parishioners. One was a Vietnam veteran and the other the grandson of a Vietnamese military man who managed to escape after 1975. It took me back to a time when Vietnam was all we talked about.

It’s hard to believe, but U.S. troops left Vietnam in 1973, or 52 years ago this week. It ended a war that began when President Kennedy sent some advisers, was later escalated under President Johnson to 500,000 troops, and finally was ended by President Nixon.

As you may know, the parties signed a ceasefire in January 1973. It followed the famous Christmas bombing, when President Nixon forced the communists to sign the agreement. We called it “Operation Linebacker,” and it was effective. The bombing missions were so good that the communists were shortly begging for a paper to sign.

Twenty-seven months later, or May 1, 1975, the North walked into Saigon, and we’ve known it as Ho Chi Minh City ever since.

Did it have to turn out that way?

President Nixon did not think so. He wrote about it in No More Vietnams, a book that gets better with age. The point is that we choose to win wars or lose them, the latter of which we did in Vietnam. To win would not have required a single soldier — just a few B-52s to remind the North that we meant to enforce the ceasefire. We should remember that North Vietnam was devastated in 1973.

The tragedy of Vietnam is that the USSR could not believe that we had let South Vietnam collapse in 1975, as Stephen J. Morris wrote on the 30th anniversary of the disintegration of Saigon:

If the United States had provided that level of support in 1975, when South Vietnam collapsed in the face of another North Vietnamese offensive, the outcome might have been at least the same as in 1972.

But intense lobbying of Congress by the antiwar movement, especially in the context of the Watergate scandal, helped to drive cutbacks of American aid in 1974.
Combined with the impact of the world oil crisis and inflation of 1973-74, the results were devastating for the south.

As the triumphant North Vietnamese commander, Gen. Van Tien Dung, wrote later, President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam was forced to fight “a poor man’s war.”

Even Hanoi’s main patron, the Soviet Union, was convinced that a North Vietnamese military victory was highly unlikely.

Evidence from Soviet Communist Party archives suggests that, until 1974, Soviet military intelligence analysts and diplomats never believed that the North Vietnamese would be victorious on the battlefield. Only political and diplomatic efforts could succeed.

Moscow thought that the South Vietnamese government was strong enough to defend itself with a continuation of American logistical support.
The former Soviet chargé d’affaires in Hanoi during the 1970’s told me in Moscow in late 1993 that if one looked at the balance of forces, one could not predict that the South would be defeated.

Until 1975, Moscow was not only impressed by American military power and political will, it also clearly had no desire to go to war with the United States over Vietnam.

But after 1975, Soviet fear of the United States dissipated.

No kidding that fear of the U.S. dissipated.

The post-Vietnam years contributed to the perception that the U.S. was weak and unwilling to defend its interests. From Nicaragua to Iran to the Soviets in Afghanistan and Cuban troops in Africa, it was a time of U.S. weakness. Thankfully, it ended with the Reagan presidency, and the good guys were on top again.

Yes, there were many mistakes in Vietnam, from using the Gulf of Tonkin resolution to send 500,000 soldiers to war to not fighting to win. I believe that the biggest mistake was not preserving our gains, or a South Vietnam that would have looked a lot like South Korea today. Again, it could have turned out very different, especially for the many who served in Vietnam. They won the battles, and the politicians lost the peace.

Let’s remember again all of those who served and the ones who died. They were the heroes.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/we_remember_those_who_served_in_vietnam.html

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Remembering the Brave Pilots on National Vietnam War Veterans Day

The story of the young forward air controllers who pinpointed the enemy from the skies.

by Dave Patterson | Mar 29, 2024


This year National Vietnam War Veterans Day coincides with Good Friday, a day that commemorates the ultimate sacrifice Christ made for all mankind. So it is fitting for Americans to remember and revere the sacrifice of those who answered their country’s call and went to war in a faraway place called Vietnam. In his first year in office, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017, designating March 29 as the date of remembrance.

There are many stories of heroism and gallantry during the Vietnam War. Liberty Nation takes this opportunity to recognize a group who flew the forward air controller (FAC) missions, vital to meeting and defeating the enemy in Southeast Asia. Those who saw the 1981 movie BAT 21 may be familiar with the term FAC and know what an O-2A aircraft looks like, seen in the film starring Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, and Jerry Reed.

The Skies Over South Vietnam

A half-century ago, men too young to know better would strap on twin-engine, civilian Cessna 337 Super Skymaster airplanes, converted for military use, and head out to find the enemy. The O-2A was a unique configuration, with one engine in front pulling and another in the back pushing, sometimes referred to as a “push me, pull you.” At a minimum altitude of 3,000 feet in South Vietnam, the O-2A FAC would fly to an assigned or, in many cases, a discovered target location in South Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia, and the mission was on.



A typical close air support mission would begin in the sky over an enemy position. Once the FAC sorted out the friendly forces from the bad guys, fighter bombers were called in to attack the enemy ground forces, Viet Cong or North Vietnamese soldiers. On such engagements, following the rendezvous and check-in, the FAC would brief the fighters on the target and the enemy ground fire to be expected.

Banking his aircraft and then entering a steep dive, the FAC would bring the round lighted gunsight reticle to bear on the target (there was nothing computer-aided), line up the target with the crosshairs, and mark it with a 2.75-inch diameter, 4-foot-long white phosphorus rocket that exploded on the ground with a large white plume of smoke.

As Barry Levine wrote in his Historynet.com article “This Plane Made All the Difference in Vietnam – So Did Its Aviators,” the gunsight mounted on the front glare shield was very inaccurate. Consequently, “To improve accuracy, some pilots used a grease pencil mark on the windshield, coordinated with the seat and the pilot’s height, as an alternative gunsight,” Levine explained. “Hit my smoke” was the FACs’ instruction to the fighter bombers so they could more accurately hit the target.

The FAC missions in South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia during the Vietnam war were similar. The aircraft and the altitudes flown differed, the targets and call signs varied, but the mission – finding and marking every target for fighter bombers to destroy and reporting on the battle damage (mission success) — was straightforward.

A representative account of one unit’s experience is well told in a remembrance of the April 1972 North Vietnamese offensive around the provincial capital of An Loc. Bob Murphy wrote in his History, The Sundogs:

“We suffered aircraft losses. Over An Loc, we lost three O-2s, two A-37s, three C-130s, one AC-119, numerous helicopters, including three Dustoffs (white choppers with large red crosses, used for medical purposes), several VNAF [Vietnam Air Force] aircraft, and one AC-130, which was hit by an SA-7 [Shoulder-fired Anti-aircraft missile] and recovered at Tan Son Nhut. We lost an 0-2 near Bao Loc, not too far from Song Be, and two in Cambodia.”



The C-130 cargo aircraft resupplied the US advisers and South Vietnamese Army troops at An Loc. AC-119s were C-119 1950s-era cargo aircraft converted into gunships. The AC-130 was a gunship with formidable firepower from 40-millimeter guns and a giant 105-millimeter cannon sticking out the side. As Sundog FACs worked the air over An Loc, one of the A-37 fighters was shot down. The pilot was listed for many years as one of the unknowns from the Vietnam War at Arlington National Cemetery. A report from Liberty Nation explained, “As forensic identification improved, in 1998, the remains from the Vietnam War were identified as US Air Force First Lieutenant Michael Joseph Blassie, who was killed flying close air support for defenders of the town of An Loc, South Vietnam, in 1972.”

The 1972 Spring Offensive

The 1972 Spring Offensive and the battle for An Loc were the last significant engagements, after which the US FAC mission in South Vietnam wound down. In the final accounting, the sacrifice in lost lives and futures for the US forward air controllers was considerable. The statistical summary presented in the publication A Brief History of Forward Air Controlling is sobering. Of the 104 O-2As lost, 82 were in combat at a cost of 72 pilots killed in action. Of all the FAC aircraft designated as slow FACs lost to enemy fire, 32% were O-2As.

FAC pilots acquitted themselves with honor. Many of them, generally, and most of the Sundog FACs, were second lieutenants who had not been out of flight school long. Yet the FACs were in charge of the war when it came to the skies over the enemy. On this day, Liberty Nation honors those men.

https://www.libertynation.com/remembering-the-brave-pilots-on-national-vietnam-war-veterans-day/

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Good riddance Hanoi Jane

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Disgusting people-

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The world today reminds us of the post-Vietnam era

By Silvio Canto, Jr.

If you remember Vietnam, then you may ask a simple question: Where did 50 years go?

Better than that, you may look around today and see a lot of international conflicts like we did after our embarrassing departure from Saigon.

It was 50 years ago this week that U.S. troops left Vietnam. It ended a war that began when President Kennedy sent some advisers, then was later escalated under President Johnson to 500,000 troops, and finally was ended by President Nixon. As you know, the parties signed a ceasefire in January 1973. It followed the "famous Christmas bombing" when President Nixon forced the communists to sign the agreement. We called it "Operation Linebacker" and it was effective. The bombing missions were so good that the communists were shortly begging for a paper to sign. Where do I sign Mr. Kissinger?

Twenty-seven months later, or on May 1, 1975, the North walked into Saigon, and we’ve known it as Ho Chi Minh City ever since.

Did it have to turn out that way? No it did not.

Yes, there were many mistakes in Vietnam, from using the Gulf of Tonkin resolution to send 500,000 soldiers to war to not fighting to win. I believe that the biggest mistake was not preserving our gains, or a South Vietnam that would have looked a lot like South Korea today. Again, it could have turned out very differently, especially for the many who served in Vietnam. They won the battles, and the politicians lost the peace.

And last but not least, Vietnam promoted the idea that the U.S. was weak and the bad guys jumped on the opportunity. Weakness inviting aggression is not a cliché. It's the truth.

By the way, doesn't that look a bit like walking out of Afghanistan last year? The world looks a bit like it did in the late 1970s when U.S. weakness in Vietnam and the Carter presidency made the world very unsafe for U.S. interests. It took the election of Ronald Reagan to put things back in order. It will take another election in 2024 to put things back to order again.

Let me say it again, remember the Vietnam veterans. They did their jobs and did it well. We salute all of them and honor the 60,000 who did not make it home.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/the_world_today_reminds_us_of_the_postvietnam_era.html

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Never forget

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Was there, did same-

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Another Pulitzer Prize discredited as propaganda

By Monica Showalter

Remember all that political hay the far left and its media allies made during the Vietnam War about the wickedness of America's South Vietnamese ally and the importance of abandoning that country to the communists?

Here's the Pulitzer Prize–winning AP photo that was supposed to prick our consciences and make us turn against that "immoral" war against a communist takeover:


There's no doubt about it, the photo is hard to look at. It's crude, rough, wartime justice, a picture of South Vietnamese Police Captain Nguy?n Ng?c Loan coldly executing Viet Cong Captain Nguy?n Van Lém. The film is even harder to look at.

It ran on the front page of the New York Times, cropped from the original to fill the space and make its impact even more immediate.

And it got the results the anti-war left wanted: public sentiment abruptly turned against the war as a result of this photo. The Vietnamese people were abandoned by the Americans, whose cut-and-run evacuation from the Saigon embassy rooftop was only recently bested by Joe Biden's Afghanistan pullout. After that, the re-education camps rolled in, the boat people launched into the high seas, and the killing fields of Cambodia began.

Jane Fonda must have been so proud of herself.

Just one problem, though: The context was missing, and that context mattered.

The guy who got shot, who went by the nom de guerre Bay Lop, was a death squad psychopath in the Viet Cong who had just gotten done massacring 34 innocent people.

According to GroovyHistory:

From January to September 1968, North Vietnamese forces launched a coordinated series of attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam, proof that American forces had failed to quash the guerilla combatants. Death squads made their way through the cities, killing anyone who wasn't joining their revolution. Captured in a building in the Cho Lon quarter of Saigon, Nguy?n Van Lém was a member of the Viet Cong whose downfall began in the Tet Offensive. Allegedly Lém was arrested for cutting the throats of South Vietnamese Lt Col Nguyen Tuan, his wife, their six children and the officer's 80-year-old mother. On top of that, he was leading a Viet Cong team whose whole deal was taking out members of the National Police and their families. A the time of his death, Lém should have been considered a prisoner of war under the Geneva Convention, but because he was dressed in civilian clothing and he wasn't carrying a firearm, he was technically seen as an "illegal combatant."

During the Tet Offensive, Lém was on a bloodthirsty tear through Saigon. He may look boyish, but he had the heart of a killer. The photo shows Lém handcuffed and in civilian clothing, but he was operating a death squad that had killed 34 that same day. He allegedly took out seven police officers, multiple members of their families, and even a few Americans. Each victim was bound by their wrists and shot in the back of the head, execution style. Because he wasn't wearing the outfit of a solider this put him in a bad scenario. As a person committing war crimes he was in a bad way, especially with General Loan coming after him. Not only had he carried out a gruesome act, but he was eligible for immediate execution.

Wikipedia notes that maybe this didn't happen the way these facts say it happened. A leftist professor quoted on Wikipedia said:

In 2018, author Max Hastings detailed the allegations against Lém, adding that American historian Ed Moise "is convinced that the entire story of Lém murdering the Tuân family is a post-war invention" and that "The truth will never be known."

Now that revisionist history is falling apart.

The Daily Mail found an admiral in the U.S. Navy, who was a tiny sole survivor of that massacre.

He was a little Vietnamese boy at the time who watched as this psychopath shot civilian after civilian including his entire family. He survived by playing dead and eventually made his way to America to becomee an American citizen, joining the U.S. Navy, and rising to the rank of admiral.

According to the Mail:

Bay Lop, the subject in the photo, had been executed in Saigon after carrying out the mass murder of Huan Nguyen's father — South Vietnamese Lt. Col. Nguyen Tuan, along with the officer's wife, mother, and six of his children, five boys and one girl.

Huan Nguyen, managed to survive despite being shot three times through the arm, thigh, and skull. The youngster stayed with his mother's dead body for two hours following the cold-blooded murder according to Military.com.

When night fell, Nguyen then escaped managing to avoid the communist guerrillas, and went to live with his uncle, a colonel in the South Vietnamese Air Force.

There's no disputing the facts of what happened to him, which pretty well puts paid to the nutty leftist professor's claims, and there's no excusing the behavior of the anti-war left, which used this child's family's murder to sell the first great bug-out of America on its allies for the purpose of spreading communism. The press, which acted pretty much in the same dishonest manner as it does today, was amazingly dishonest in its presentation of its "narrative," particularly at the editorial level.

Now we learn that a brave survivor exists from that terrible incident, and the badness of America suddenly wasn't so bad. The bad guy, in fact, was the communist Viet Cong "captain" who was a mass murderer not at all different from the Las Vegas spray shooter.

It's amazing what the press got away with on that one. And it serves as a reminder that pictures can be distorted and manipulated without context, without even Photoshop. While the photographer, Eddie Adams, was blameless, as he was just doing his job, the way the photo was presented, by broadcasters and newspaper editors, was not. This is one sorry incident that the left got away with. They showered their Pulitzers and watched the protests begin. One only wonders what the little kid who survived the massacre to become an admiral must have thought. Now that it's out that he survived this psychopath, his life is living testimony to that reality.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/another_pulitzer_prize_discredited_as_propaganda.html

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Happy Vietnam Veterans Day-

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RIP Joe Galloway.

There is a video at the link below of an interview done with Joe by one of our local reporters. Being local, it probably didn't get widespread coverage. It's down the page a bit, not the one at the top.

It's 40 wonderful minutes of a great American talking about great Americans. Well worth a listen, IMO.

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Was Army myself, but had many Marine friends, still do.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINE(s) !!!

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Good News for a Viet Nam Vet >

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God Rest !

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A Tribute to Vietnam Veterans Featuring the Voice of Mr. Sam Elliott

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Obituary for Michael John "Hoagie" Hoagland

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Michael “Hoagie” John Hoagland, 62, of Austin, Texas, passed away, Monday, April 8, 2019 peacefully.

A celebration of life will be held at 10:00 am, Saturday, April 13th at Harrell Funeral Home, 4435 Frontier Trail, Austin, Texas 78745. The funeral service will follow at 11:00 am and burial will follow at Assumption Cemetery, 3650 S IH 35 Frontage Rd, Austin, Texas 78704.

Hoagie was born January 22, 1957 in Bloomington, Indiana to Merton and Kay Hoagland. He graduated from Del Valle High School in 1975. On December 7, 1985 he married the former Susie Shields in Austin. Hoagie owned an HVAC business for over 20 years. He was an avid fan of the Indiana sports teams, and the Texas Longhorns. He spent most of his weekends upgrading his home. He also enjoyed reading, following stocks and spending time with his children and grandchildren.

Hoagie is survived by his fiancé, Dianna Hobson; two kids, Haylee Smith, Robert Hoagland and his wife Daisy; five grandchildren, Nicholas and Eli Smith, Angeles and Belen Zuniga, and Demetrius Hoagland; his brothers, William Hoagland and Howard Hoagland and his sister, Kathy Hoagland; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Merton and Kay Hoagland.
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Here's a novelty tee shirt-

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Vietnam Veteran Establishes Stellar Fishing and Outdoor Apparel Brand

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In his service, Glen worked on a ship as a pharmacist and provided medication to those in need, during the trials and tribulations of the Vietnam War. When he returned home, Glen built everything he had from nothing, which displayed the American Dream. All he knows is hard work. Even at 80-years-old, he remains relentless with his final business. He works with a passion for everything in fishing, fashion, and community.

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THE WOUNDED WAR VETERAN

Long read, voice from "down under"

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Funny...was just watching this...

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Hi EZ-

Right before I left in Feb 68 I spent a few weeks in Dong Tam. There were a lot of those gun boats there and the guys were great- perhaps because their mess halls were far better stocked than ours, LOL. I know Kerry was a pussy but I would never have that reflect on those brave souls cruising the delta. JMHO

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al......I'll proudly ADD another name to the HIT list:

John Kerry

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Happy Birthday, USMC, semper fi

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Jane Fonda Claims It’s ‘Hard’ for Her to ‘Breathe’ in Donald Trump’s America

Wow, do I have a simple solution for her problem.........al

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Hanoi Jane still at it-

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Jane Fonda Pushes for Government Overthrow

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Anti-Trump actress Jane Fonda warned a crowd of celebrities of the “existential crisis” America is currently facing under President Trump, saying it's time to “taking back our government.”

Breitbart reports:


After winning the Female EMA Lifetime Achievement Award at the Environmental Media Association (EMA) first Honors Benefit Gala, Fonda said that Democrats taking the House in the upcoming mid-terms elections was crucial to saving the country.

“This is an existential crisis that we’re in,” said the 80-year-old Grace and Frankie star. “We have to do everything we can to take back the house in November. If anything can save us, it’s gonna be taking back our government.”

Other actresses present at the ceremony included Elizabeth Olsen and Fonda’s Grace and Frankie co-star Lily Tomlin, who told The Hollywood Reporter: “[Trump] is dangerous — he’s unfortunately dangerous to the planet, if nothing else. If we could raise Trump’s consciousness, that would be helpful.”


http://americanupdate.com/articles/jane-fonda-pushes-for-government-overthrow

[HoosierHoagie]

Semper Fi.../Salute

[HoosierHoagie]

Semper Fi.../Salute

[EZ2]

TY Vets!!


http://www.vietnamwar50th.com/

[NYBob]

Happy Veterans Day - This morning, President @real DonaldTrump commemorated
#VeteransDay and thanked our "Great Veterans."
#ProudAmerican -




Donald J. Trump Verified account
@realDonaldTrumpOn this wonderful Veterans Day, I want to express the
incredible gratitude of the entire American Nation to our
GREAT VETERANS.
Thank you!
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On this wonderful Veterans Day, I want to express the incredible gratitude of the entire American Nation to our GREAT VETERANS. Thank you! pic.twitter.com/GhQbCA7yII

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2017

Happy Veterans Day!
4:11 am - 11 Nov 2017

President Trump is working on behalf of a grateful nation to ensure that
our veterans are properly recognized for their service and sacrifice.
The President is initiating critical reforms at the VA, modernizing and
expanding choice to healthcare, and expanding opportunities for
veterans. Read more about how President Trump is putting our veterans
first here -

“We will not rest until all of America’s great veterans can receive the
care they so richly deserve. Tremendous progress has been made in a
short period of time.”

- President Donald J. Trump

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President Trump Honors Veterans in Vietnam
This morning, in Da Nang, Vietnam, President Trump participated in a
meet-and-greet with Vietnam War Veterans.
The President expressed his gratitude for their service to the United
States, and reaffirmed his commitment to honor the sacrifice of all
Veterans and rebuild our military. After giving remarks,
President Trump signed a proclamation to honor the veterans of the
Vietnam War, part of an ongoing 13-year commemoration of their sacrifice
for freedom.

“Our veterans are a national treasure, and I thank them all for their
service, sacrifice, and patriotism.
To each of you with me today, you are the heroes who fulfill your duty
to our nation.
And each of you, under the most difficult conditions, did what you had
to do, and you did it well,” President Trump said.

Read the President's full remarks here....
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600daily

Improving Services for American Vets
In honor of Veterans Day, Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin
penned an op-ed in The Hill on recent developments in the Department of
Veterans Affairs which will allow the department to provide services to
veterans more effectively.
These changes include improved internal accountability, same-day
services for primary and mental health care, and an updated electronic
health records system.

“This Veterans Day, we are redoubling our efforts to continue getting
things done on behalf of those who have worn the uniform.
Our veterans deserve no less,” Shulkin wrote.

God Bless America Trump888C Savior -
Amen

[BidnessMan]

Hello all. 25 Year retired Army CW4 Aviator here Vietnam 1972-1973 Can Tho Green Delta and Vinh Long Apache Troop flew AH-1G and UH-1B,D & Desert Storm 1990-1991 flew AH-64's and amazingly a UH-1H for maintenance support. Retired 1995. Good Times. Worked as an engineer after retirement. Retired for good in 2015.

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8:00 p.m. (e.s.t.) ---- Begins tonight.... 10 part

Length: 90 | Original Airdate 9/17/17

The Vietnam War
Déjà Vu (1858-1961)

The first installment of a 10-part, 18-hour history of the Vietnam War. After a long and brutal war, Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end nearly a century of French colonial occupation. With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva. Communists in the north aim to reunify the country, while America supports Ngo Dinh Diem's untested regime in the south.

http://www.pbs.org/

http://www.pbs.org/video/remember-uavfm1/

[al44]

Memories- Enjoy

[EZ2]

The Vietnam War is finally uniting America
By Seth Lipsky
August 2, 2017 | 7:10pm
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What a contrast to the way The New York Times is marking the 50th anniversary of Vietnam in 1967, which it calls the year that changed the war and America. It’s running a series riddled with praise for those on the Communist side or those who, while loyal to our side, opposed the war.

(The NY Slimes is lower than whale spit.)

Who would have thought that the unifying note in the Time of Trump would be Vietnam? Our country, after all, has been tearing itself apart over ObamaCare, tax policy, Russian meddling, immigration, climate change and the Middle East.

Yet there was President Trump Monday, bestowing the Medal of Honor on a one-time Army medic who was advanced for our nation’s highest award for valor by former President Barack Obama. It seems the two presidents actually agree on something.

And what they agree on is that a modest, retired coach and teacher from Michigan, James McCloughan, now 71, deserves our nation’s highest military honor for deeds done nearly 50 years ago. And in a war on which our own Congress turned its back.

What a deeply satisfying moment.

Not that this is the first time that a recent president has reached back to award a long-overdue Medal of Honor for valor in Vietnam. Just last year Obama draped the blue ribbon with white stars on an Army lieutenant colonel named Charles Kettles.

In Vietnam, Kettles had repeatedly flown his helicopter through heavy fire to rescue from an enemy attack 40 of his fellow GIs. It was an incredible display of valor. “Entire family trees,” Obama said, “were made possible by the actions of this one man.”

In 2014, Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to two Vietnam veterans. Sgt. Donald Sloat, honored posthumously, clutched an enemy grenade to his breast to save his buddies. The other, Command Sgt. Major Bennie Adkins, slew as many as 175 enemy soldiers while rescuing his comrades and sustaining 18 wounds himself.

Five years ago in a ceremony at Arlington Cemetery, Obama formally thanked the long-shunned veterans of Vietnam. And he went further, rightly calling America’s treatment of its Vietnam veterans a “national shame, a disgrace that should never have happened.”

It was Obama who signed the waiver legislation needed to enable James McCloughan to be awarded the Medal of Honor so long after the war (awarding the medal is restricted to the five years after the actions it recognizes). President Trump rose to the occasion, in a powerful White House ceremony.

It honored McCloughan for saving the lives of 10 fellow soldiers during 48 hours of desperate combat on a hill called Nui Yom. “It was as if the strength and the pride of our whole nation were beating inside Jim’s heart,” Trump said.

What a contrast to the way The New York Times is marking the 50th anniversary of Vietnam in 1967, which it calls the year that changed the war and America. It’s running a series riddled with praise for those on the Communist side or those who, while loyal to our side, opposed the war.

One piece celebrates “the women who fought for Hanoi,” meaning Soviet-backed Communists of North Vietnam. “My First Anti-War Protest,” reads another headline in the Times series. Another kvells about “a frontline nurse for the Vietcong.”

There’s a piece celebrating the glories of an antiwar concert. Another is by Joan Baez’s ex-husband, who’d decided “my country was wrong” and chose jail rather than answer the Vietnam draft. The Times series also extolls Muhammad Ali for refusing the draft.

Unless I missed it, though, there’s nothing about Jim McCloughan and the other outsized heroes who were touched by glory in Vietnam. Or about what turn history might have taken had we let the Communists seize Indochina without a fight.

These oversights might be rectified in the new series on Vietnam by documentary film-maker Ken Burns. It is set to be released in September. He and his filmmaking partner, Lynn Novick, have a piece in the Times series on the war.

“If we are to begin the process of healing,” they write, “we must first honor the courage, heroism and sacrifice of those who served and those who died, not just as we do today, on Memorial Day, but every day.”

A preview of their documentary makes clear how wracked with guilt are those who greeted returning veterans with sneers and jeers. One antiwar activist they filmed appears close to tears as she recalls such behavior.

Hence the importance of what Obama and Trump are doing. Let the next step in honoring the courage, heroism and sacrifice of those who served (and sometimes died) in Vietnam be finding a way to acknowledge that theirs was, as Reagan put it, a noble cause.

http://nypost.com/2017/08/02/the-vietnam-war-is-finally-uniting-america/

[SkeBallLarry]

Veterans: You (may) be interested in this >

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Vietnam veteran to receive Medal of Honor, 1st from Trump

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/13/michigan-vietnam-vet-is-trumps-1st-medal-honor-recipient.html

A 71-year-old Vietnam War veteran from South Haven, Mich., will be the first service member awarded the nation's highest military honor by President Trump, the Army announced Tuesday.

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As if it could not get any worse ~~~~
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5452309075001/?playlist_id=930909787001#sp=show-clips

[ONEBGG]

To All Who Have & Are Serving, Thank You & God Bless!

[SkeBallLarry]

" What an answer " .. !!! >>

[ksquared]

For those who died serving in Vietnam.
During their time, they never got the respect and gratitude they deserved.
You are not forgotten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozpdBvB0hek

[pos_stock_hoarder]

Nicely said and drawn by Mr. Ramirez. God bless our vets!