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Thu Jun-24-10 11:09 AM
Response to Reply #28 |
| 29. Hey, it barely made it HERE, lol |
| -To Chris Mathews, Howard, et all: The Vietcong had nothing to do with the fall of Saigon, nothing. |
grantcart |
Jun-23-10 08:17 PM |
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Please refrain from posting the truth here. |
cliffordu |
Jun-23-10 08:25 PM |
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Thank you. |
PDJane |
Jun-23-10 08:27 PM |
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That's great information. Basically we lost regardless of the reason. |
Lint Head |
Jun-23-10 08:39 PM |
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Had we carpet bombed them with $20.00 bills, we could have |
Old and In the Way |
Jun-23-10 08:56 PM |
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I have argued exactly that for years. |
Jackpine Radical |
Jun-23-10 09:07 PM |
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Our military left in 1973. The South Vietnamese proved unable to defend themselves |
grantcart |
Jun-23-10 09:10 PM |
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Fascinating personal insight....thanks for sharing! |
Old and In the Way |
Jun-23-10 08:57 PM |
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Maybe Tweety and the Duck don't know the difference between VC & NVA. |
Jackpine Radical |
Jun-23-10 09:00 PM |
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Which is completely understandable. However if that is the case then they should |
grantcart |
Jun-23-10 09:11 PM |
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There are some who are not only abysmally ignorant, but |
Jackpine Radical |
Jun-23-10 09:28 PM |
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I spent two tours there and Never once encountered VC |
Bandit |
Jun-24-10 07:46 AM |
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That's mostly how it was after the Tet Counter-offensive |
pinboy3niner |
Jun-24-10 08:03 AM |
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Yes, we were occasionally finding Chinese advisers with the NVA in 1967-68. |
Jackpine Radical |
Jun-24-10 09:40 AM |
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You made an excellent point about VN's distrust of China |
pinboy3niner |
Jun-24-10 10:08 AM |
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well that mistrust was pretty spot on as the Third Indochina War proved |
grantcart |
Jun-24-10 11:29 AM |
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We actually encountered quite a few of what we called Nungs |
Winterblues |
Jun-24-10 02:42 PM |
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Yes, the Nung are an ethnic group that migrated from China to Vietnam |
Jackpine Radical |
Jun-24-10 08:10 PM |
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Off To The Greatest Page With You !!! - K & R !!! |
WillyT |
Jun-23-10 09:00 PM |
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K&R #8 for, Tweety "admits" he ONLY went into the Peace Corps to escape. |
UTUSN |
Jun-23-10 09:11 PM |
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this is why i come here |
mopinko |
Jun-23-10 09:16 PM |
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well it makes my day to think I helped rob your boss of your productivity |
grantcart |
Jun-23-10 10:32 PM |
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sadly, i am my own boss |
mopinko |
Jun-23-10 11:10 PM |
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How silly of you to think that FACTS & RESEARCH have anything |
bullwinkle428 |
Jun-23-10 09:16 PM |
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Regular elements of the PAVN |
alcibiades_mystery |
Jun-23-10 09:25 PM |
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Tet, an American military victory, destroyed the VC |
era veteran |
Jun-23-10 09:49 PM |
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I have a hard time with "victory"... |
Bigmack |
Jun-23-10 11:19 PM |
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Military victory over the VC, who were destroyed, is fact |
era veteran |
Jun-24-10 05:07 AM |
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Good post |
HughMoran |
Jun-23-10 10:37 PM |
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Chris Mathews is on the other side of the coin from Bill O'Reilly. |
PavePusher |
Jun-23-10 10:51 PM |
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K&R! There was one film that "got" it: The Siege of Firebase Gloria |
pinboy3niner |
Jun-24-10 05:38 AM |
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great reference - the movie never made it to Thailand lol |
grantcart |
Jun-24-10 11:01 AM |
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Hey, it barely made it HERE, lol |
pinboy3niner |
Jun-24-10 11:09 AM |
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I neglected to mention that in the movie... |
pinboy3niner |
Jun-24-10 02:02 PM |
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too... complicated... not... black and white... must ... stop... reading... n/t |
DefenseLawyer |
Jun-24-10 11:16 AM |
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Spot on! The VC were largely a motley crew of rag-tag chicken shits ... |
11 Bravo |
Jun-24-10 02:11 PM |
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