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Posted on 8/29/14 at 3:18 pm to Black n Gold
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If we won the war, why did it end with marines plucking people off of the embassy in Saigon?
Darth is the history buff, but in a nutshell, we won the battles, the politicos conceded the war, we handed their asses to them on air, land , and sea(rivers), learned their tactics and mastered them, the pols just pulled the plug, and of course that's what the people at home watching the Brady Bunch wanted
Posted on 8/29/14 at 3:22 pm to Black n Gold
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Serious question from a novice history buff... If we won the war, why did it end with marines plucking people off of the embassy in Saigon?
OK. The Marines you saw in the evacuation of Saigon were not from a field force that had been in combat against the NVA. Those were security at the embassy itself. This evacuation took place two years after the end of the Vietnam War. You see the war ended in 1973. But the North then went and attacked again in 1975. This time though, thanks to the Dems in Congress, we left he South out to to dry.
Posted on 8/29/14 at 10:39 pm to Black n Gold
The tet offensive is a military disaster but a huge PR victory.
If you want to get real pissed off, I have been told by many Vietnamese clients over the years that most of the "Biloxi" Vietnamese that we allowed to settle here, and were purchased shrimps boats for etc were in fact Viet Cong. We were just too stupid to know it. Killing Americans one day and we are giving them boats the next
If you want to get real pissed off, I have been told by many Vietnamese clients over the years that most of the "Biloxi" Vietnamese that we allowed to settle here, and were purchased shrimps boats for etc were in fact Viet Cong. We were just too stupid to know it. Killing Americans one day and we are giving them boats the next
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