After I posted the “Dear Vietnam Veteran”
Letter in a non-military forum, one person had the below phrase in
one of her sentences. She was one of many thousands of reads. No one
of the posters even hinted at being negative of Veterans. My response
to her follows her phrase.
“Some of them did some awful things... ”
War is an awful thing. It was not created, and
it was not started by 18 & 19 year olds. (I was 19 when I was living
24/7 in a Vietnamese peasant-farming village.) Vietnam Veterans served
their Country’s men and women proudly like all the honorable Veterans
before them.
The honorable 2.6 million men and women, who served
in Vietnam, received a bums-rap because the American news-media was
in search of higher ratings.
Soon, Hollywood realized it translated into more
money to “Make Vietnam Veterans Look Bad On Television And In The
Movies.” This fed perfectly into the hands of the World’s Communists.
But it was a short victory, because the people who were living in
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, knew the truth.
Hollywood and the American news-media surrendered
a good part of America, because of the dollar... And they surrendered
the Vietnamese People because of the dollar. And it took their freedoms
away...
The Myth About The Vietnam War
Isolated atrocities committed by American soldiers
produced torrents of outrage from (American) antiwar critics and the
news media while Communist atrocities were so common that they received
hardly any attention at all. The United States sought to minimize
and prevent attacks on civilians while North Vietnam made attacks
on civilians a centerpiece of its strategy. Americans who deliberately
killed civilians received prison sentences while Communists who did
so received commendations. From 1957 to 1973, the National
Liberation Front assassinated 36,725 South Vietnamese and abducted
another 58,499. The death squads focused on leaders at the village
level and on anyone who improved the lives of the peasants such as
medical personnel, social workers, and school teachers.
There is much to learn about the Vietnam War.
I think Americans would have a real learning experience once the majority
opens up to hear Vietnam Veterans tell their side of things. The research
is out there for all to learn... epecially our school children. The
Vietnam War was mostly left out of American classrooms the past thirty
years. Yet during the war, much of the anti-war movement came out
of the classrooms. WHY...
Today, a good term paper would be: What Happened
To The Vietnamese People After America Left Vietnam Let our
children find the truth.
GOD BLESS THE USA AND ALL OUR VETERANS
