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-Donnie
Friday, December 02, 2022
Vietnam: West Virginians Remember
A documentary featuring the experiences of 5 West Virginia combat Vietnam veterans. Per capita, West Virginians served the most and died the most in Vietnam. It lives on as America’s most controversial war – with questions unanswered, lessons not learned, and for veterans who survive, including thousands of West Virginians, haunting memories remain.
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I lived in Faifield California from about 1962 till 1971...all we saw as kids were C-141's all day long, full of dead soldiers landing at Travis . Many of my neighbors had to take that flight....RIP
ReplyDeleteI was stationed at Travis AFB ‘70 to’73. One day I was watching low boy trailers being loaded high with rectangular aluminum boxes from C 141 cargo planes. I thought they were air to air missiles and wondered why they were being unloaded at Travis, when my boss told me they were caskets, I was shocked. I used to see a lot of young marines at the terminal, on their way to vietnam, they all looked 17. Dear God, they were children, innocent children.
DeleteIn the 'most controversial' category, Afghanistan is not far behind.
ReplyDeleteHad to snap this one off. Disinformation on JFK, and "a war they knew was not winnable" was too much balderdash for me. Not the guys talking. The narration. JFK had an executive order that all troops were to be out before Christmas 1963 and all advisors to be out by 1965. First thing LBJ did was to belay that order and send in half a million. Vid dishonors 58,000 dead.
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Reflects pretty poorly on Landslide Lyndon, doesn't it?
DeleteWhat really reflects poorly on Lying Bastard Johnson was sending half a million troops in without thinking of a better strategy than "Winning hearts and minds with napalm".
DeleteLying Bastard Johnson knew the Gulf of Tonkin incident was bogus ("Hell, them damn dumb sailors were probably shooting at flying fish.") but went ahead anyway.
DeleteThe kicker is the CO of the fighter squadron flying CAP that night knew there was nothing there (William Stockdale I THINK) was later sitting in a POW camp (and could have blown the lid off the whole thing) but the NV captors never thought to beat that answer out of him.
58,000 Americans dead and a country torn apart over a lie and you think I don't despise that bastard?
Re: "hearts and minds" "When you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."
I was 13 when Kennedy was assassinated....from the first day, and ever since, I thought LBJ was responsible, if not as the ring leader, certainly as a willing accomplice...."I will not send American boys halfway around the world to do a job Vietnamese boys ought to be doing for themselves"....fucking liar....he couldn't wait to escalate that police action into a full fledged involvement....special place in hell for that ass?....far be it for me to say....Gulf of Tonkin had to be a staged event....one would have to be a fool to believe the North Vietnamese wanted to deepen American involvement further than it was at the time....of course, one can only speculate, but the evidence seems apparent for those who want to see it....
ReplyDeleteOne of my teachers in Jr HS came from a small town in rural Oregon and he lost just about everyone from his graduating class.
ReplyDeleteRIP to all that had their lives stolen by corrupt pols and hats off to all that served and "survived".
Heavy flick. First few minutes of it I had to shut it off. This morning I watched it. Thanks for posting it. Still got shit in my head. I think watching helps in some way. Hearing other Vets talk what I feel I guess.
ReplyDeleteAny been to the WWII Memorial in Bedford Co. Va.? On D Day Bedford had the highest loss per capita of any USA town. Nineteen boys in one day. I believe Company A Omaha Beach. Four more would die in the advance. There were about 3000 residents in Bedford at the time. That is why Bedford was picked for the Memorial. I've been there a few times. Pretty moving. Rode one Sunday with the Shenandoah Valley Chapter. We were over 300 strong with motorcycle police escort. We raised over eight thousand dollars for the Memorial that day.
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